I became an actor to escape ...

I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. You see, through acting you come full circle in your personality and, oh, what a grand time you can have along the way being wonderful people through your characters...I think all the courage that I may lack personally I have as an actor.
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 George C. Scott

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The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.
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 George C. Scott
He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.
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 George C. Scott
Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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 George C. Scott
Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
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 George C. Scott
There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.
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 George C. Scott