American - Actor | July 5, 1968 -
I find if you can look in the mirror and see something other than the face you see every day, it can free you up in terms of who you play. Wearing a mask can free you up.
Michael Stuhlbarg
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There's a lot of noise in the world. And one of the beautiful things about doing theater and film is the absence of that noise or, perhaps, the adding of that noise where it's helpful in telling the story. I'm always trying to get rid of that noise. The more you do it, the better you get.
Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.
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I love throwing myself into people who actually lived. It gives me a lot to research and a lot to know.
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I miss California... I love driving.
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I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.
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I did a play back in 2005 called 'The Pillowman,' which Martin McDonagh directed, in which, at the very end of the run, I caught a case of shingles. I had something burst on my forehead, so I actually have a mark on my forehead from that experience. But it's also an internal mark as well.
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Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.
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With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we're doing.
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I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.
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You never know what is going to happen in your life.
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I had been acting since I was a kid. I had done 35 plays in New York before 'Serious Man,' but you never know what putting one foot in front of the other is going to do.
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