54 Quotes by Corey Stoll

I don’t know how to play myself. I’m not interested enough in myself. That’s just not how I was educated. That’s not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character.

My parents never had to tell me about the birds and the bees, you know? It was very out in the open.

Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging.

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.

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.

The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.

It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority.

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.

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.