Stephen Lang Quotes

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• 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.

  Stephen Lang

  Jobs, Philosophy, Directors

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• Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

  Stephen Lang

  Imagination, Needs, Tools

  "Stephen Lang Interview TERRA NOVA; Plus an Update on CONAN THE BARBARIAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

  Stephen Lang

  Writing, Responsibility, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Stephen Lang

  Gun, Men, Two

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, "sock it away," and unsuccessful actors, it's just, "Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it and if you have to do it, keep you've got to keep your instrument in shape. You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.

  Stephen Lang

  Successful, Advice, Get Better

  "IN PLAIN SIGHT Scoop: Stephen Lang Talks Portraying Mary Shannon's Long-Lost Father". Interview with Tiffany Voght, www.thetvaddict.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

  Stephen Lang

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

  Stephen Lang

  Jobs, Age, Stuff

  "Stephen Lang Interview TERRA NOVA; Plus an Update on CONAN THE BARBARIAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

  Stephen Lang

  Determination, Way, Fortitude

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

  Stephen Lang

  War, Believe, Supportive

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing.

  Stephen Lang

  Lonely, Thinking, Roots

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• I can't imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on 'Avatar.' And whether I'm ever part of it again, I'll always be very proud that I was a part of it.

  Stephen Lang

  Proud, Imagine, Exciting

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• The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.

  Stephen Lang

  Character, Interesting, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

  Stephen Lang

  Art, Imagination, Acting

  "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.

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• You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

  Stephen Lang

  Play, Creating, Identity

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• I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.

  Stephen Lang

  Unique, Emotional, Giving

  "Daddy’s Home! Stephen Lang On Playing Mary Shannon’s Long Gone Father On In Plain Sight!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

  Stephen Lang

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

  Stephen Lang

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

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• 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.

  Stephen Lang

  Fun, Roles, Down And

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• As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.

  Stephen Lang

  Basketball, Yoga, Games

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• What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.

  Stephen Lang

  Character, Play, Roles

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

  Stephen Lang

  Reading, Play, Want

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• 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.

  Stephen Lang

  Character, Giving, Secret

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• In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

  Stephen Lang

  Real, Skills, Imagination

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

  Stephen Lang

  Clown, Used, Playing God

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• I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But, that's good too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

  Stephen Lang

  Focus, Hitting, Lines

  "Stephen Lang Interview TERRA NOVA; Plus an Update on CONAN THE BARBARIAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2011.

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