Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish actor Stuart Townsend.
Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Stuart Townsend is an Irish actor and director. He portrayed Lestat de Lioncourt in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned (2002), and Dorian Gray in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). In 2007, he made his directorial debut with Battle in Seattle. Townsend co-stars with Mena Suvari in the 2021 drama Grace and Grit, which is based on the true story by Ken Wilber, won four awards at the L.A. Film Festival and was acquired by Quiver Distribution.
I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.
I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.
I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.
Home is a relative concept for me. I've been in Los Angeles 10 years, and I definitely feel at home here, but I also feel at home in a lot of places. I'm not too attached to anywhere, really. Home is where the people you love are at the time.
I'd worked with directors who wouldn't collaborate. Then I've also worked with directors who didn't really know what they wanted. I knew I didn't want to be either one of those guys - or girls.
Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.
How deep the Father's love for us,
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
To make a wretch His treasure.