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Scott Glenn Biography

Theodore Scott Glenn, better known as Scott Glenn, is an American actor. His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Kevin Garvey, Sr. in The Leftovers (2014–2017) and as Stick in both Daredevil (2015–) and The Defenders (2017).

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I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.

Character, I Realized, Long, Play, Time

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

Acting, Day, Days, Film, Giving, Lasts

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

Fate, Happened, Invariably, Life, Things

I love the way Damon Lindelof writes. It's almost like he was channeling me and he had my voice, even though the territory that those lines cover is unpredictable, and goes from raw emotion to laugh out loud funny but always true.

Emotion, Funny, Laughing, Lines, Territory, Writing

You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.

Expect, Like, Loyal, Men, My Cowboy

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

Combination, God, Idiots, Kids, Thinking, Two

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature films, and Lev Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoyevsky would write television series because there are some stories you just can't tell in two hours.

Film, Hours, Television, Tell, Write, Writing

The third season of the Leftovers came along and Damon Lindelof sent me the script to Episode 3, and I called him up and thanked him for one of the greatest gifts I've been given. I had that script for almost two months, in the mountains in Idaho, before I even got on a plane and flew to Australia and went to the outback. He also told me to learn about the indigenous people in Australia and learn how to play a didgeridoo. It was just great. It was probably, in many ways, the best acting experience I've ever had.

Acting, Damon, Indigenous, Mountain, People, Told

Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.

Dig, Features, Long, Part, Rarely

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

Color, Completely, Editing, Pink, Purple, Red

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

Adequate, Numbers, Struggle, Survive, Working

I'm way more comfortable around kids than I am people my own age.

Age, Kids, People

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

Chickens, Hard, Knowing, Part, Playing

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

Emotionally, Felt, Ground, Like, Solid

If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks. . . People say, "Oh, there's a difference between cable and network," and my response to that is, "No, there's a difference between sponsored and not sponsored. " That's the thing.

Break, Breaks, Differences, Network, People, Thing

What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether.

Acting, Character, Develop, Realizing, Time, True

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it. "

Computer, Explain, Grandkids, Grandpa, Human

Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to do that a lot.

Feelings, Hate, Manufacture, People, Playing

J. J. Abrams wanted me to do a part in Lost and we probably had three meetings, and I finally turned it down, but it wasn't because I didn't like television or Lost, although I think I said to J. J. , "I don't want to be in Hawaii and have an insurance person tell me I'm not allowed to go free dive and spear fishing. " That would be the worst kind of torture in the world. But I don't hate television.

Although, Fishing, Hate, Meetings, Thinking, World