Stephen Dorff (Stephen Hartley Dorff Jr.) Quotes
I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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I've got nothing to complain about. I have to enjoy and be grateful. Lots of people would like to be in my shoes.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
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And yet, she knew she could be.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
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Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.
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I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.
