Corey Stoll

Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea. ”

I made a choice in my career to not get hair plugs and not hide the fact that I was balding, and I've managed to play all sorts of characters who have shaved heads. ”

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel. ”

I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind. ”

When you're in a theater, it's about reaching the back rows. When you have a camera in your face, it's just about knowing the size of the room. ”

There's a ton of stories that can come out of L.A. I actually think that even though I enjoy being in New York more, I think that L.A. is a really fascinating place. ”

I think, sometimes, actors having a holistic view of what they're in can be overrated. Especially when you're playing somebody as narcissistic and self-involved as Ernest Hemingway, it doesn't really matter what else is in the script. ”

What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you. ”

The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do. ”

What was so brilliant about 'Girls' was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn't shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses. ”