Quotes By Scott Caan

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

I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if it's successful, then everything's perfect and everybody's happy.

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

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

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

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

I've got a tough act to follow.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

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

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

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

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

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

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

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

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

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

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

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I never planned on being a plumber.

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

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.

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

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

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

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

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

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

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