Quotes by Stephen Lang

Stephen Lang

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.

Basketball

Games

Yoga

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

Determination

Fortitude

Way

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.

Down And

Fun

Roles

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.

Character

Giving

Secret

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.

Mother

People

Thinking

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.

Jobs

Opportunity

Thinking

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.

Exciting

Imagine

Proud

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

Believe

Supportive

War

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, “I really hate you.” And they say it in the nicest possible way and I accept it. It’s the people who come up to you and say, “I really liked your character. Man, he was right!” Those are the ones you worry about.

Character

Hate

Men

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.

Focus

Hitting

Lines

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Add

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Basketball

Believe

Calling

Careers

Changed

Changed My Life

Character

Creating

Determination

Directors

Down And

Exciting

Feels

Focus

Fortitude

Fun

Games

Get Better

Giving

Guy

Hate

He Man

Hitting

Ideas

Identity

Ifs

Imagination

Imagine

Interesting

Jobs

Lines

Long

Men

Mother

My Favorite

Myopic

Opportunity

People

Philosophy

Play

Proud

Rama

Real

Robins

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Quotes by Stephen Lang

Stephen Lang

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, “I really hate you.” And they say it in the nicest possible way and I accept it. It’s the people who come up to you and say, “I really liked your character. Man, he was right!” Those are the ones you worry about.

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.

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