Words matter. These are the best Sebastian Stan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s gotta be a human being in everybody, regardless of what they do or what people think they did.
You can’t judge a character, and you’re never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.
To shoot a movie that takes place in three decades in 30 days is a lot on the hair and make-up team.
I always look at auditions as not even getting the job as much as I’m just trying to connect with this casting director so they remember me for next time.
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever.
Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand – I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence – and peace of mind.
My first job was in a movie theater. I worked at Cinema 6 in New City, New York. I was an usher. I sold popcorn.
I can’t take one day for granted. That’s usually how I think.
I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, ‘What are these people going to think of me?’
Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand – I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence – and peace of mind.
You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don’t get to in real life. It can be addicting.
I can’t take one day for granted. That’s usually how I think.
I was Danny Zuko in ‘Grease,’ and I was in the musical ‘Sweet Charity’ and then in the musical ‘On the Twentieth Century.’ They were great. I mean, singing isn’t really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it.
I’ve gotten really good at not judging characters.
I’ve gotten really good at not judging characters.
You can’t judge a character, and you’re never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.
When I was younger, it was so much easier. All I needed to do was just get a job. It was like, ‘Oh, my God, I have a job! I can call myself a working actor.’ But then, the older you get, you have to be more selective, and that’s tough.
My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character’s point of view and let the audience decide.
I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can’t live without it.
Sometimes with films you have a freedom to be able to, Okay, we got that take so let’s try another one where suddenly I’ll say this, or you’ll get to improv. You can’t do that with stage. We have to make it new every time, and also within the structured settings.
If you’re getting abandonment, if you’re getting abuse as a child, if you’re getting uncertainty when you’re a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that’s love.
The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it’s such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don’t have time to think about anything else. You’re just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can’t stop the play.
My first job was in a movie theater. I worked at Cinema 6 in New City, New York. I was an usher. I sold popcorn.
My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character’s point of view and let the audience decide.
Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there’s a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.
Sometimes with films you have a freedom to be able to, Okay, we got that take so let’s try another one where suddenly I’ll say this, or you’ll get to improv. You can’t do that with stage. We have to make it new every time, and also within the structured settings.
If you’re getting abandonment, if you’re getting abuse as a child, if you’re getting uncertainty when you’re a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that’s love.
I do like ‘Game of Thrones.’ I really like it.
I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in ’95.
Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what’s going on in the real world than people want to discuss.
Sometimes it’s okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, ‘That was cool. That made me feel good.’
I live in New York and I love it, because it doesn’t make me feel like my life is always just about acting and that world of acting. I don’t have expectations.
Most of the people I admire as actors didn’t make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.
I like to be lean and flexible. I’m not interested in gaining size.
I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in ’95.
I know, when people are considering me for jobs, sometimes it’s, ‘Well, you’re in a comic-book movie.’ And I’m, like, ‘But I’m killing myself to try to do the best I can!’
Theater is the most challenging thing to do. It’s just you out there with no rope. You can’t call time out; you’re on a roller coaster.
Most of the people I admire as actors didn’t make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.
I think it gets a little harder as you find more success. As success happens, you have to figure out this question of ‘What I am going to do next that stands out?’ Because then you get seen as ‘this thing,’ which is a part of you. But it’s not really you.
I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, ‘What are these people going to think of me?’
I’ve never been ice skating, ever. I’m traumatized by the idea of it.
Sometimes you don’t want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there’s so many technicalities. So if I’m in my head, I’ve gotten settled on something, I’m gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that’s completely different.
I was Danny Zuko in ‘Grease,’ and I was in the musical ‘Sweet Charity’ and then in the musical ‘On the Twentieth Century.’ They were great. I mean, singing isn’t really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it.
Comedy is only funny when there’s real pain.
Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there’s a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.
Comedy is only funny when there’s real pain.
Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.
I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can’t live without it.
I’ve never been ice skating, ever. I’m traumatized by the idea of it.
