43 Quotes by Michael Stuhlbarg

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 saw a production of 'Titus Andronicus' at the Royal Shakespeare Company with Brian Cox back in 1987. That sort of rocked my world. It was a remarkable production in its simplicity and its realism and passion.

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

I came to New York to study theater and stayed and was doing exactly what I wanted to do. It's because of that work that some doors eventually opened for me.

I find if you can look in the mirror and see something other than the face you see every day, it can free you up in terms of who you play. Wearing a mask can free you up.

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.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

I love throwing myself into people who actually lived. It gives me a lot to research and a lot to know.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.