A biography for Tom Sturridgehasn’t been written yet.
“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?'”
“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.”
“I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected.”
“I'm not a very good actor.”
“I spend the majority of my life not acting.”
“I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.”
“'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.”
“I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy.”
“My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life.”
“I like to cook and go to Whole Foods.”
“The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid.”
“I'd go as far as it takes. There's never too far. You do what you have to do for your girl.”
“I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.”
“I write constantly about everything.”
“I'm not afraid of not working.”
“Some people are defined by what they do.”
“As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.”
“I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.”
“I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.”
“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.”