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Tom Sturridge
English
Actor
Born:
Dec 21
,
1985
About
Acting
Director
Life
People
You
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The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best.
Tom Sturridge
Best
You
Seriously
Important
Whatever
Take
Do Your Best
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
The Most Important
Decide
Your
Choose
Thing
I like to cook and go to Whole Foods.
Tom Sturridge
Foods
Like
Go
Cook
Whole
Whole Foods
I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.
Tom Sturridge
Idea
Up
Any
Wanted
Grew
In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.
Tom Sturridge
You
Director
Sit
Down
About
Talk
Auditions
Experiences
Theater
England
Play
To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.
Tom Sturridge
Mountains
Broadway
Broadway Show
Climb
Doing
Person
Wanted
Show
English
There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, 'All right, how are you?'
Tom Sturridge
Saying
You
Together
Understanding
Few
Way
Would
About
Someone
More
Come
Piece
Talk
Revealing
How
Very
Quickly
Than
Few Things
Just
Literature
Pub
Much
Deeper
Play
Right
Things
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.
Tom Sturridge
Silence
Before
Extraordinary
Way
Out
Silences
Vocabulary
Between
Within
Dialogue
His
Different
Spaces
Which
Page
Even
Mapped
Plays
I spend the majority of my life not acting.
Tom Sturridge
Life
My Life
Spend
Majority
Acting
'1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related.
Tom Sturridge
Day
Conversation
Theatre
Every Day
Political
Mind
Every
Relevant
Exciting
Piece
America
Whether
Spawned
England
Things
Orwell
Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.
Tom Sturridge
Cinema
Contemporary
Lot
Very
Fan
European
Serious
Film
Watched
Basically
I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.
Tom Sturridge
You
Seriously
Way
Something
Take
Just
Preparing
Set
I'd go as far as it takes. There's never too far. You do what you have to do for your girl.
Tom Sturridge
You
Girl
Too
Never
Takes
Go
As Far As
Far
Your
I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.
Tom Sturridge
People
Stage
Think
Bizarre
Between
Period
Always
End
Very
Different
Either
Ages
Two
Two People
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.
Tom Sturridge
Character
You
Someone
Shakespeare
Got
Sentence
Persuade
Right
Speech
The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid.
Tom Sturridge
Stupid
Dream
Phrase
Pretty
Sounds
Career
There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'
Tom Sturridge
Christmas
World
Walk
Father
Hilarious
Thinking
Philip
Favourite
Dressed
Am
Up
Being
Where
Room
Suddenly
Actor
Watching
So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.
Tom Sturridge
Job
Thought
Finished
Believe
Until
Doing
Fallen
Apart
Many
Things
Filming
I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.
Tom Sturridge
Archetypal
Shadow
About
General
Concept
Acting
Platonic
There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.
Tom Sturridge
You
Director
Wait
Somebody
Say
Okay
About
Weird
Weird Thing
Like
Where
Ask
Acting
Thing
I write constantly about everything.
Tom Sturridge
Everything
Constantly
About
Write
As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'
Tom Sturridge
Memories
Parents
Discouraged
Were
Going
Children
Aside
Acting
Actively
Travels
Set
Sibling
I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected.
Tom Sturridge
Good
Parents
Respected
Bad
Would
Supported
Because
Felt
Always
Loved
Whether
Decisions
Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?
Tom Sturridge
Depression
Health
Mental Health
Problem
Sadness
Problems
Difficult
Complex
Mental
Between
Does
Difference
Who
Thing
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