world on fire;

“I think I might have been a toy maker. I’m a kid at heart, and maybe some people might say that it’s immature, but the truth is, you gotta recall your childhood because it’s an important time. I guess I’ve always been fascinated by people who make toys, because they have to remain a child one way or another. I’m also interested in writing. I don’t have enough confidence to publish my own stuff yet. But with writing, you can express yourself in a different way from acting. Actually, learning to write has also made me a better reader, even with my scripts.”

Often there’s this idea that people become overnight successes – it’s funny being on the other side of that, because you just feel like you’re a jobbing actor, and it’s all very gradual. Certainly for some people that’s the case, they do one film at the beginning of their career and they’re skyrocketed into a catastrophic level of fame. But I felt lucky in that my ascent has been quite gradual. I don’t think I would have been comfortable with handling a certain level of success at a young age. It was really important for me to build a career. Because in an ideal world it is something I’ll be doing until I’m much older. I’ve always just wanted to do interesting projects, and make sure that the character was different from the last, and the scripts were always good. There’s really no way of predicting it, you just have to enjoy each job and take what you can from it and whatever happens, happens, I think!

get to know me: ten favorite actors // chris evans  ❝the point is that when i see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit i’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. i’m not trying to figure it out, you know what i mean? and i wonder if i can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.❞

Myself. No one’s ever gonna beat me. I don’t care for reviews, because no one can say anything that even comes near to what I say about myself. I don’t ever relax, and I really don’t care about what people say. I will always say something worse about myself. 

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

Maisie Williams // Nylon Magazine (May 2016)

J.J. basically told me it was an intense, heroic, dramatic character and he hadn’t seen me do that. I didn’t know if I could make it interesting. I didn’t know why me and not anybody else.

I’ve done movies I’m very proud of, but there’s always a sense of: ‘Come see this shiny new car!’ The question I hate the most is: ‘Why should people see it?’

[recreation]

Maybe that was our m i s t a k e. Believing in k i n g s.

sebastian stan photographed by matt doyle for backstage magazine - (may 2016)

And I’m going home.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I’ve been really lucky in that sense, I think.

You ready to follow Captain America into the jaws of death? Hell, no. That little guy from Brooklyn who was too dumb to run away from a fight, I’m following him.

He remembered you.

It’s quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It’s a relief that that’s over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.

Expectations really fuck you up. It’s OK to have dreams, it’s OK to have goals, in my opinion. But I really think it’s much more about the climb and the work you do on the way up. The climb is really hard and really rough, but it’s also the best part because there are still places to climb up to. [x]