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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tom Sturridge

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" Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film. "

" Some people are defined by what they do. "

" I spend the majority of my life not acting. "

" To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb. "

" 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?' "

" I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer. "

" The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best. "

" If they're a friend, they stick with you through the tough stuff. "

" It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. "

" I'd go as far as it takes. There's never too far. You do what you have to do for your girl. "

" My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life. "

" In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play. "

" I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected. "

" If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy. "

" As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right. "

" Scary things are good, aren't they? "

" There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, 'All right, how are you?' "

" I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight. "

" I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not. "

" If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts. "

" 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. "

" I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously. "

" My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid. "

" The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid. "

" I'm not a very good actor. "

" I write constantly about everything. "

" I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors. "

" As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.' "

" I like to cook and go to Whole Foods. "

Tom Sturridge

Cook