Quotes from Tom Sturridge

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

Scary things are good, aren't they?

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

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.

My career may look bizarre to some, but I have very strong reasons for doing every single job I've done.

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

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?'

I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy.

I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected.

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?

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

I write constantly about everything.

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

My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid.

I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

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.

I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

I like to cook and go to Whole Foods.

I'm not a very good actor.

It's not often talked about what a wonderful feeling it is to see someone that you care about love and be loved.

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

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.