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The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.

Stephen Lang

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Stephen Lang
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 11
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I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.
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Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.
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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
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I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.
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I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.
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There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.
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My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.
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I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right.
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My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'
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My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, sock it away, and unsuccessful actors, it's just, Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it and if you have to do it, keep you've got to keep your instrument in shape. You just got to keep on getting better. If you're not getting better, you're standing still.
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Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
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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.
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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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My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
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I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.
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I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there next to him, sits there cowering. My feeling is that the different is tiny between the two.
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The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.
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Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.
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You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
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When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.
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