Tom Sturridge Quotes

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Tom Sturridge

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 21, 1985

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

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I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

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In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

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To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.

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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?'

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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.

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I'm not a very good actor.

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I spend the majority of my life not acting.

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If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

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I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.

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Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

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It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

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My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid.

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I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.

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If they're a friend, they stick with you through the tough stuff.

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The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

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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.

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As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

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If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

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I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

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