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" Working outdoors in the Delacorte Theater is always challenging. "
Corey Stoll
Outdoors
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" I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it. "
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" It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority. "
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" In terms of my free time, I really don't have much. The time I do have, I enjoy being domestic and spending time with my girlfriend, hiking and playing tennis. "
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" I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind. "
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" A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically. "
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" What was so brilliant about 'Girls' was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn't shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses. "
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" In some ways, it's easier to be the lead. Week after week, scene after scene, the rhythms of filming force you to peel away a certain amount of artifice. When you're on set that much, there's a license to let the character emerge from the work itself. "
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" When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about knowing the size of the room. "
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" There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place. "
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" What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you. "
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" It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material. "
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" The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do. "
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" I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent. "
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" Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York. "
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" The good guy is only as strong as the bad guy. "
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" People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost. "
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" You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It's a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it's definitely worth chasing. "
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" I started with superhero stuff - 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' and 'Batman' and 'Hellboy' - but I wasn't familiar with 'The Strain' until I started the show. "
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