Stephen Dillane Quotes

Stephen Dillane — English Actor born on November 30, 1956,

Stephen J. Dillane is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours, Stannis Baratheon in Game of Thrones, and American politician Thomas Jefferson in the 2008 HBO miniseries John Adams, a part which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination. An accomplished stage actor who has been called an "actor's actor", he holds a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing and is also known for critically acclaimed performances in Angels in America, Hamlet, and a one-man Macbeth. His television work has additionally garnered him BAFTA and International Emmy awards for best actor... (wikipedia)

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

Stephen Dillane Quotes

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