Toby Stephens Quotes
Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
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Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
