Scott Caan Quotes (56 Quotes)

I think westerns today, people and young kids have a hard time getting into it.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I just love women.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

I stuck to blackjack and craps. I play by the book, so I came out on top.

Just like more of the cool riding stunts and stuff you just admire and hope that your movie has some of that stuff in it.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

I include Jimmy Caan with those other actors out of respect, not because of his process, but because I think he's an amazing actor.

I never thought about writing a play before this because I have a huge respect for playwrights.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

If you don't go to school, you can't play sports.

At the end of the day, I'll take it because once my foot is in the door, I've got to show them proof.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it.

I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good.

I had been going through this thing with my girlfriend the past year and a half where we'd break up and get back together.

If you want to hire me to play a tough guy, I'll do it.

I haven't partied for at least two years.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big.

I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.

I'd get suspended for fighting, for graffiti, for smoking pot. And I learned that it's not worth it.

I dig the whole process so much, movies, plays, any theatrical activity.

I used to go out to clubs, and I used to like to drink and I used to like to rumble and get into trouble and stuff.

Let me talk about how I dig my art, how I don't drive ten minutes without being creative, how I'm going to be in this business for the rest of my life, how I'm going to do things differently.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

A lot of kids come here from other towns, they want to be actors, and they get sucked into the whole Hollywood thing and having fun, then they're 27 before they settle down.

So for me, to go back to theater, that's everything.

I love my dad to death, but I'm all about doing for myself.

I've got a tough act to follow.

We made 24 last week because our theater runs on donations.

I liked being in the spotlight.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Hollywood is sort of a small, little town, and doing things like that - like writing a play or selling a script - those are the little things people see.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

All the other stuff - the partying, the drinking and drugs... going out, having a good time, creating an image - is bull.

If you want me to play a sensitive guy, a lead, a gay guy or a black guy, I'll play whatever you want.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

I never planned on being a plumber.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

It's very rare that you get a part that at the end of the day you feel like you've really lived out, and for me going back and doing theater is like where I get to do that.

I grew up with a lot of anger in me and I've let it out.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

I feel like I did all my dirt, so to speak, before I got a chance to get some fame.

People in Hollywood - the real deal people - they look at that stuff and respect it. They think it's worth something, worth getting involved with somebody like that.