Tom Sturridge

“And he trusts that you are enough. You don’t have to present. He will find.”

“Tom, your hair is really messy. You look sick, you’re so pale. And if I stare into your eyes, I can see the cosmos. So it’s fine. We’re good.”

“I wanted to build a body that felt like a creature and was true to the images that are in the comics. Which meant just kind of… It’s someone whose flesh is burnt away, and is just sinew and bone,”

“There’s so many aspects of his physicality that were important to me, simply because he doesn’t express himself traditionally, often. And so the way that he moves, I think, could be an enlightening way of how he can articulate himself,”

“It’s just so unusual when you’re building a character or when you’re embarking on a job to have a bible that’s over 2,500 pages long where you can really discover every fragment of who these characters are,”

“going to the gym for long periods of time and not eating anything – and D will happen.”

“to have a physicality that could convey this powerful animal, as if you had shaved a panther.”

“I wanted to see the creature that I bore witness to in the books,”

“We’re literally sitting in bird shit,”

“Ask anyone in this park [who I am] or tell them my name,”

“One would assume you’re alone when you do it, right? And, actually, the thing we discovered pretty much the first time we performed is how integral the audience is and how a monologue is a dialogue with them,”

“No! It’s true and it’s beautiful. I said this about Amy Adams and I feel the same way about him: He’s ruthlessly compassionate.”

“I can't imagine having done this experience any way else,”

“This man is entirely aware that he’s standing in front of a thousand people telling story,”