Stephen Moyer Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
October 11, 1969

Stephen Moyer is an English film and television actor and director who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series True Blood. He was born in Brentwood, Essex and attended St Martin's, a comprehensive school in Hutton, Essex. His first television role was in 1993 as Philip Masefield in the TV adaptation of the play Conjugal Rites, written by actor/playwright Roger Hall.

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.

Stephen Moyer
- Looking
- Older
- Shirt
Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

Stephen Moyer

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

Stephen Moyer
- Sports
- English
- Regimen
When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

Stephen Moyer
I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up.

Stephen Moyer
- Feel
- Shame
- Trainer
Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

Stephen Moyer
- People
- Drama
- Conflict
I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

Stephen Moyer
- World
- Change
- Theater
Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

Stephen Moyer
- Film
- Audience
- Effect

Theatre was always my passion.

Stephen Moyer
- Passion
- Theatre
One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Stephen Moyer