You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don’t have nerves, and you don’t have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong. Mark Strong Read Quote
I have to say, when you make a movie, you really have no idea how it’s going to turn out as an actor. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it because the minute the shoot ends, it’s got nothing to do with you anymore. Mark Strong Read Quote
I’ve never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, ‘I’m going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.’ I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn’t dried up yet, touch wood. Mark Strong Read Quote
I was born in London, and my family is here. America is an interesting place, but it’s incredibly different culturally. It doesn’t take long being there before I want to get back. Mark Strong Read Quote
I can’t imagine anything worse than being in a position that you’re not allowed to live your life privately. Mark Strong Read Quote
If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood. Mark Strong Read Quote
In the past, if I didn’t work, I didn’t eat but now I feel I can not work and I won’t starve. Mark Strong Read Quote
When you’re making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they’re never quite sure where they are. Mark Strong Read Quote
Funnily enough, I had a real giggle with Gary Oldman when we were doing an interview together for ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.’ Because I joked I was probably the only British actor who wasn’t in the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise. The same is true of ‘Game of Thrones.’ Also ‘Star Wars.’ Mark Strong Read Quote
The person I respect most, in terms of historical figures, is probably Nelson Mandela. I just think that his tolerance in the face of extreme provocation is something every single person on the planet could learn from. Mark Strong Read Quote
