Scott Caan Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

But I wanted to prove to everyone I wasn't this actor's kid who was like a punk - which is stupid.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

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

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.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

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

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

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

I figured if I'm going to do something, I want to do it right.

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

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.

I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid.

I haven't partied for at least two years.

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 just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

I just hope I can have a career as good as his.

I just love women.

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

I liked being in the spotlight.

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

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

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

I never asked for any help. I never asked for a meeting.

I never planned on being a plumber.

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

I remember an umpire called one of our players out, and he clearly wasn't, so my dad chased the umpire around the field.

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

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

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.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

I want to focus on things that are important.

I wanted to get into acting, and that was the only place I've ever known.

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

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

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

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

I'm glad I grew up in Los Angeles.

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

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

I've got a tough act to follow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

My father tried to raise me like his father raised him.

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

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Originally, only the girls were supposed to be naked. I felt sorry for then, so I stripped too.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Why would I even try when there are so many great plays out there to do?