Toby Stephens famous quotes

I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.
-- Toby Stephens

#Thinking #Play #Baggage

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
-- Toby Stephens

#Talking #Actors #Obsessed

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
-- Toby Stephens

#Thinking #Class #People

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.
-- Toby Stephens

#Jobs #Growing Up #Moving

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
-- Toby Stephens

#Scotland #Hiking #Landscape

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
-- Toby Stephens

#Children #Naughty #Grandparent

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
-- Toby Stephens

#Cutting #Play #Theatre

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
-- Toby Stephens

#Bob #Reeds #Musician

It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
-- Toby Stephens

#Passionate #Too Much #Enough

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,

Tradition and heritage are all dead peoples baggage. Stop carrying it. Move forward.

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.