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Andrew Scott [1976-0] Irish
Rank: 103
Actor, Film actor


Andrew Scott is an Irish film, television and stage actor. He plays Jim Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock and Max Denbigh in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre.

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Life's too short.
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The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
102
I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.
103
I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.
104
I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.
105
I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.
106
I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to. Humor
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Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.
108
The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.
109
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.
110
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
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I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. Humor
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I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.
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It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.
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I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.
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If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.
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Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
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I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.
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I like clothes.
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One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.
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It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.
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I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
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I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.
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Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
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'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.
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I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.
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I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.
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I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.
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