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.
I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now. - Stephen Lang
I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.
- Stephen Lang
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… - Stephen Lang
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…
Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about. - Stephen Lang
Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.
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 do… - Stephen Lang
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 do…
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 roman… - Stephen Lang
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 roman…
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 t… - Stephen Lang
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 t…
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 professio… - Stephen Lang
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 professio…
I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops. - Stephen Lang
I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.
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 … - Stephen Lang
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 …
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