Quotes from Scott Speedman

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends.

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives.

I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.

I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show but, like everybody else, trying to find something good.

I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

I get a little uptight if things aren't going the way I think they should be going.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.