Words matter. These are the best Tom Sturridge Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I found that the more I’d done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it’s meant to be acted.
If I’d been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.
I’m drawn to people rather than mediums – directors, writers, actors.
I’m not afraid of not working.
I shouldn’t be right for every role, because I’m not.
If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they’re going to cast the right guy.
I’d go as far as it takes. There’s never too far. You do what you have to do for your girl.
Scary things are good, aren’t they?
In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.
There’s this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it’s okay.
I wasn’t a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.
I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer.
I’m not a very good actor.
My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid.
Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.
I don’t think I could do a superhero movie. I’m just not really that type of guy.
Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What’s the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?
I spend the majority of my life not acting.
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you’ve got it right.
As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents – aside from ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’
I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.
It’s always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue – there’s this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.
I don’t have a general archetypal platonic shadow, ‘acting’ concept about it.
I like to cook and go to Whole Foods.
I don’t have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.
I write constantly about everything.
It’s not often talked about what a wonderful feeling it is to see someone that you care about love and be loved.
There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I’m suddenly thinking, ‘Where am I?’
Some people are defined by what they do.
There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, ‘All right, how are you?’
My baby pukes on me. It’s life. It’s very much a normal life.
The phrase ‘dream career’ sounds pretty stupid.
