Thinking Quotes by Mark Strong

Mark Strong

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you’ve learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

Children

Thinking

Years

Mark Strong

I loved making The Imitation Game and it’s really gratifying to hear the audience’s response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing that I did because I really liked the film and I liked Benedict [Cumberbatch] and I loved Morten’s [director Morten Tyldum] previous film, Headhunters. For me, it was something I did thinking, “Wow, this is a lovely quality piece of work.”

Character

Games

Thinking

Mark Strong

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you’re unsure of me because you’ve only ever really seen me play villains.

Play

Purpose

Thinking

Mark Strong

I’m not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I’ve met have stories they need to tell. I don’t have that. I’m an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, “Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that.”

Character

Needs

Thinking

Mark Strong

I’m sure part of the baggage that I bring having played a lot of villains is also pertinent to the movie [Before I Go To Sleep], because I’m sure people look at me and think, “Oh, I’m not sure I trust him or not.”

People

Sleep

Thinking

Mark Strong

I’m very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don’t have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

Assistants

Home

Thinking

Mark Strong

I’ve played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they’ve been so successful is that they’re not two-dimensional. They’re not black and white. That’s the gig.

Black And White

Successful

Thinking

Mark Strong

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.

Falling In Love

Important

Thinking

Mark Strong

Rowan Joffe was on top of everything. He knew exactly how he wanted everything to be, right down to the fact when I made those telephone calls, I didn’t do it afterwards in a studio. I think that’s how he operates. He likes it to be as real and as clear as possible.

Likes

Real

Thinking

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Baby

Black And White

Blow

Can Not

Car

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Children

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Crazy

Dad

Dark

Daughter

Doctors

Done

Evil

Falling In Love

Family And Friends

Feels

Fighting

Film

Friday

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Giving

Home

Ideas

Important

Jobs

Journey

Kind

Knights

Likes

Looks

Mean

Mind

Mother

Moving

Needs

Never Quit

Next Week

Obvious

Opportunity

Past

People

Play

Purpose

Real

Realizing

Risk

Scripts

Secret

Shifting

Shooting

Sleep

Sometimes

Stars

Successful

These Days

Thinking

Together

Transformation

Twists

Two

Usual

Wells

Years

Thinking Quotes by Mark Strong

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you’ve learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you’re unsure of me because you’ve only ever really seen me play villains.

I’m not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I’ve met have stories they need to tell. I don’t have that. I’m an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, “Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that.”

I’m sure part of the baggage that I bring having played a lot of villains is also pertinent to the movie [Before I Go To Sleep], because I’m sure people look at me and think, “Oh, I’m not sure I trust him or not.”

I’m very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don’t have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I’ve played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they’ve been so successful is that they’re not two-dimensional. They’re not black and white. That’s the gig.

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.

Rowan Joffe was on top of everything. He knew exactly how he wanted everything to be, right down to the fact when I made those telephone calls, I didn’t do it afterwards in a studio. I think that’s how he operates. He likes it to be as real and as clear as possible.

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