Quotes by Scoot Mcnairy - Page 1

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Attention
Want
Way
Draw
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I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Cinematography
Courses
Photography
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I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Acting
Thinking
Tunes
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I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Independent
Light
Years
Independent Films
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To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Coming Out
Three
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I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.
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Break
Asked
Big Break
Slow
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I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Kids
After School
Every Night
Fall
Program
School
Asleep
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I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Jobs
Character
Strong
Better Job
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I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Disability
Dyslexia
Eye
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I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Opportunity
Careers
Get Better
Career
Me Grow Better
Gradually
Opportunities
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Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Like You
Wish
Wow
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I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.
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Admiration
Andrew
Hands
Love Work Movies
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When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.
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Bits
Littles
Tweak
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To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Book
People
Three
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It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.
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Different
Real
Technique
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My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.
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Really Great
Virtue
Wonderful
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I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.
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Black
Hands
Want
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I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.
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Choices
Different
Mind
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I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.
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Hands
Long
People
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I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Country
Creative
Creative People
Moved
Moving
Stuff
Texas
Wanted
Awesome
Somewhere
Full
Stay
Liked
Spend
Place
Necessarily
Packed
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Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.
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Adventure
Block
Childhood
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'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.
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Sixteen
Adventures
Buddies
Creek
Same Age
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I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and all stories. But, there's certain ones that attract me, and I don't really sort of look at what I think is going to be successful, I look at more so, you know, is this what I want to do regardless of what everybody else thinks?
Scoot Mcnairy / Actor
Interesting
Successful
Thinking
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