Andrew Scott Quotes

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.