Tom Sturridge Quotes

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

I like to have something to base a role on.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.