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.
Meaning of the quote
The quote from actor Scott Speedman explains how a popular TV show he acted in helped launch his successful acting career in the United States. The show had a strong fan base and allowed Speedman to leave Canada and move to the U.S., which led to him getting many other movie roles. Essentially, the TV show was a crucial stepping stone that gave Speedman his start in the acting industry.
More quotes from Scott Speedman
There’s such good writing now on television and I don’t see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
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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.
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I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don’t talk to me or stop me.
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If you don’t live a normal life, how do you relate to people?
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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.
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I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.
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You’ve got to just go do what you do – you can’t really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
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I just would like to spend more time in New York City.
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I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America’s industry.
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I’d rather not make films than make bad ones.
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And sex is definitely part of college life.
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I don’t see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.
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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.
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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.
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I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.
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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.
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Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.
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And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
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I can’t swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.
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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.
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I remember listening to Cube’s music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
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Duets is about six people, so it’s like three different movies – three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.
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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.
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