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Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
George C. Scott
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George C. Scott
Age: 71 †
Born: 1927
Born: October 18
Died: 1999
Died: September 22
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
George Campbell Scott
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I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. You see, through acting you come full circle in your personality and, oh, what a grand time you can have along the way being wonderful people through your characters...I think all the courage that I may lack personally I have as an actor.
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We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.
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He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.
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I think you have to be schizoid three different ways to be an actor ... You have to be a human being. Then you have to be the character you're playing. And on top of that you've got to be the guy sitting out there in Row 10, watching yourself and judging yourself. That's why most of us are crazy to start with, or go nuts once we get into it.
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I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.
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There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.
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There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
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