Quotes from Adam Scott

One line on a Tom Selleck sitcom does not a career make.

No, I don't regret doing anything, and, you know, at the time, 'Monster-in-Law' was... I was so excited to get that part. I got to be in a big movie for a few months. I got work, and everybody on it was really nice, and it was a fun experience.

I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.

It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.

I had a double bacon cheeseburger at Chili's, and I lost a tooth in it. My tooth!

There was a lot of improvisation on 'Step Brothers.' I remember it being really frightening, and it took me a long time to get used to it and grow to be able to hold my own. But I remember when it was done feeling like, 'I don't know if I ever want to go back to working another way.'

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

In television, you make an hour-long episode every seven days; we used to make 'Party Down' in four days per episode. It's quick and with independent movies is the same: you gotta keep moving. It's very similar.

More and more, you're seeing television shows that are better than 99% of the movies out there. I mean, you watch something like the last couple of seasons of 'The Sopranos,' which is some of the most sophisticated writing I've ever seen filmed and some of the best filmmaking I've ever seen - and it's a TV show.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.

I just like staying at home and eating and watching movies and running around in the back yard.

It was just really fun doing 'Step Brothers,' and then 'Party Down' came a year later. I was having so much fun. I loved the people and the comedy community.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.

For years and years, I was doing extra work and guest spots and anything I could cobble together.

I prefer Los Angeles just because I live there and my family's there. But I think New York is just kind of the center of the world.

The great thing about New York is that you don't have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I walk all day and see the most interesting stuff. There's always some kind of drama playing out.

I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the '90s, too. Then I got a part in 'The Aviator' and couldn't believe it.

After a long day at the beach, a hamburger and fries usually does the trick.

Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

I remember getting out of acting school and friends of mine talking about, like, 'You know, I don't think I'm gonna do TV.' Like, people putting on these airs of being picky. And I was never a snob about it.