Quotes from Scott Speedman

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

Probably the most difficult things were my favorite parts. The make-up and the big fight sequence at the end of the movie were very difficult but really fun and challenging.

I love Andre Braugher, and I'm a big fan of Shawn Ryan.

I would love to do a big movie - a 'Marvel' movie.

As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.

Balance has never been my strong suit.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

I don't think a swimmer on film works unless you're Australian, because for them, swimmers are like their football players, their basketball players; they're huge stars.

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there to audition. So I have to be there to a degree.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.

Actors, I find, are generally happy to be working.

You do a good job in something, and that's your box for a minute. It's up to you to keep reimagining that box.

I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.

If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

I'm a gross human being.

Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

I don't really try to give out advice, to be honest.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.