George C. Scott Quotes

George C. Scott — American Actor born on October 18, 1927, died on September 22, 1999

George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and as Ebenezer Scrooge in Clive Donner's 1984 film A Christmas Carol. He was the first actor to refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor, having warned the Academy beforehand that he would refuse it on philosophical grounds... (wikipedia)

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.