Sebastian Stan

“I know, when people are considering me for jobs, sometimes it's, 'Well, you're in a comic-book movie.' And I'm, like, 'But I'm killing myself to try to do the best I can!'”

“I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?'”

“I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it.”

“I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.”

“I do like 'Game of Thrones.' I really like it.”

“Sometimes with films you have a freedom to be able to, Okay, we got that take so let's try another one where suddenly I'll say this, or you'll get to improv. You can't do that with stage. We have to make it new every time, and also within the structured settings.”

“I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can't live without it.”

“Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.”

“Most of the people I admire as actors didn't make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.”

“The things I learned from my parents, what was deeply ingrained in their generation, is this idea of opportunity and the freedom to have an opportunity. The way the United States was thought of is as a place you can have this chance to do anything, to say, 'This is my idea, and I get to offer it to you, and if you like it, I can profit from it.'”

“אני לא יכול לקחת יום אחד כמובן מאליו. בדרך כלל ככה אני חושב.”

“העבודה הראשונה שלי הייתה בבית קולנוע. עבדתי בסינמה 6 בניו סיטי, ניו יורק. הייתי סדרן. מכרתי פופקורן.”

“התיכון היה קצת קשה. רציתי להשתלב. רציתי שיאהבו אותי. רציתי להיראות טוב. רציתי להיות פופולרי. ביליתי הרבה זמן במחשבה, 'מה האנשים האלה יחשבו עליי'.”

“אתה לא יכול לשפוט דמות, ולא תמיד תשחק דמויות שנשמעות מוסריות או יודעות בין טוב ורע.”

“The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.”

“Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.”

“I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.”

“I live in New York and I love it, because it doesn't make me feel like my life is always just about acting and that world of acting. I don't have expectations.”

“If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that's love.”

“Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.”