Dougray Scott quotes:

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

The point is to be involved in the moment.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

I don't like acting things; I like feeling things.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

It's nice to be asked to do good projects.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me.

Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you.

I am an actor through and through.

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.