I was runner that really started focusing on swimming at a very young age, and that's kind of how I got into acting. I was at a school for gifted athletes and gifted artists, and I got injured one year and started hanging out with all the actors and dancers and all those crazy people and started getting the bug.

Scott Speedman

And sex is definitely part of college life.

Scott Speedman

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.

Scott Speedman

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

Scott Speedman

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

Scott Speedman

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

Scott Speedman

As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.

Scott Speedman

Well, when I did Underworld 2, I was in Vancouver for five months and I was reminiscent to be back up there.

Scott Speedman

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

Scott Speedman

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.

Scott Speedman

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

Scott Speedman

Every actor I know - any reasonable actor I know - is complicated. What you see and what they are, those are two very different things.

Scott Speedman

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.

Scott Speedman

I don't think a swimmer on film works unless you're Australian, because for them, swimmers are like their football players, their basketball players; they're huge stars.

Scott Speedman

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.

Scott Speedman

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.

Scott Speedman

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

Scott Speedman

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

Scott Speedman

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.

Scott Speedman

I just would like to spend more time in New York City.

Scott Speedman

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.

Scott Speedman