53 Quotes by Tom Sturridge

In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

Some people are defined by what they do.

Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.