Corey Stoll

“The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy.”

“If I could grill for breakfast, I would.”

“In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.”

“I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.”

“I can walk down the street and nobody knows who I am.”

“You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It's a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it's definitely worth chasing.”

“After college, I was an intern at the New York Theater Workshop. In the mornings, I would build sets and hang lights, and in the afternoon, I would be the reader for auditions.”

“Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.”

“It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.”

“In some ways, it's easier to be the lead. Week after week, scene after scene, the rhythms of filming force you to peel away a certain amount of artifice. When you're on set that much, there's a license to let the character emerge from the work itself.”

“A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.”

“I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.”

“I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.”

“People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.”

“What was so brilliant about 'Girls' was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn't shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses.”