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" I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer. "
Tom Sturridge
Deal
Summer
New
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" It's not often talked about what a wonderful feeling it is to see someone that you care about love and be loved. "
Tom Sturridge
Loved
You
Care
" 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
Understanding
Said
Early
" 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. "
Tom Sturridge
Wait
Say
You
" I spend the majority of my life not acting. "
Tom Sturridge
Life
Acting
Spend
" 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. "
Tom Sturridge
Way
Extraordinary
Out
" Scary things are good, aren't they? "
Tom Sturridge
Good
Scary
Things
" I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected. "
Tom Sturridge
Loved
Good
Decisions
" '1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related. "
Tom Sturridge
America
Day
Theatre
" 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.' "
Tom Sturridge
Parents
Acting
Children
" I'm not a very good actor. "
Tom Sturridge
Good Actor
Actor
Very
" 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?' "
Tom Sturridge
Thinking
I Am
World
" The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best. "
Tom Sturridge
Best
Your
You
" My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid. "
Tom Sturridge
Group
Friends
Core
" To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb. "
Tom Sturridge
Doing
Mountains
Person
" My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life. "
Tom Sturridge
Normal
Very
Much
" I write constantly about everything. "
Tom Sturridge
I Write
Everything
About
" 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?' "
Tom Sturridge
Saying
Together
Understanding
" I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different. "
Tom Sturridge
Two
Stage
Think
" It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. "
Tom Sturridge
People
Idea
Dangerous
" I'm not afraid of not working. "
Tom Sturridge
Afraid
Working
" I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not. "
Tom Sturridge
Every
Because
Right
" I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. "
Tom Sturridge
Idea
Any
Grew
" Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness? "
Tom Sturridge
Mental Health
Depression
Health
" I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy. "
Tom Sturridge
Superhero
Movie
Just
" In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play. "
Tom Sturridge
Sit
Down
Play
" Some people are defined by what they do. "
Tom Sturridge
People
Defined
Some
" If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy. "
Tom Sturridge
Guy
Director
Film
" I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out. "
Tom Sturridge
Out
Work
Obsessed
" So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job. "
Tom Sturridge
Things
Job
Thought
" The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels. "
Tom Sturridge
People
He
Feel