Andrew Scott may refer to:
I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.
One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.
If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.
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've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
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.
Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
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.
The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.