Zitat des Tages von Michael Stuhlbarg:
Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.
I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.
I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.
I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.
With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.
I love throwing myself into people who actually lived. It gives me a lot to research and a lot to know.
Scorsese is a fan of improv and is always pushing actors to think up something that would make the scene more fun. He loves any idea that helps the scene be alive.
When I heard I'd be working with Scorsese, I signed up immediately.
Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.
I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.
There's a lot of noise in the world. And one of the beautiful things about doing theater and film is the absence of that noise or, perhaps, the adding of that noise where it's helpful in telling the story. I'm always trying to get rid of that noise. The more you do it, the better you get.
I miss California... I love driving.
I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.
I just feel like I am a really lucky guy who these talented directors have found places for me. I feel honored and blessed.
I'm just grateful for the opportunities that have come my way.
I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.
Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.
I'm glad to have work.
I put my best foot forward to make the best impression I could have, and it's been serving me well ever since.