Corey Stoll Quotes
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The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.
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I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.
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I made a choice in my career to not get hair plugs and not hide the fact that I was balding, and I've managed to play all sorts of characters who have shaved heads.
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I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.
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You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It's a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it's definitely worth chasing.
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In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.
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It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.
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I was not into B-movies. A lot of it is sloppy.
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Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.
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I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.
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When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about knowing the size of the room.
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There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place.
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People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
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Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.
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I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.
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The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.
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I can walk down the street and nobody knows who I am.
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My parents met when they were 16 and bonded over the antiwar movement.
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In terms of my free time, I really don't have much. The time I do have, I enjoy being domestic and spending time with my girlfriend, hiking and playing tennis.
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Good writing is everything.
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My parents never had to tell me about the birds and the bees, you know? It was very out in the open.
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It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.
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What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.
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I think, sometimes, actors having a holistic view of what they're in can be overrated. Especially when you're playing somebody as narcissistic and self-involved as Ernest Hemingway, it doesn't really matter what else is in the script.