78 Quotes by Stephen Lang

My philosophy is, ‘Show up, shut up, and do your job,’ and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you’re likely to be able to do it again.

I have a penchant for playing God’s clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God’s clown.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he’s unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

I wouldn’t say ‘Avatar’ changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, ‘I really hate you.’ And they say it in the nicest possible way, and I accept it. It’s the people who come up to you and say, ‘I really liked your character. Man, he was right!’ Those are the ones you worry about.

I’ve been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don’t overindulge, and you can do all right.

I’ve always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two.

With correction, and given the chance, ‘Terra Nova’ can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew ‘Terra Nova’ is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. ‘Terra Nova’ is the Hubble Telescope of television.

Hamlet, that’s the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.