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Michael Stuhlbarg [1968-0] American

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Actor

Michael Stuhlbarg is an American actor. He played organized-crime boss Arnold Rothstein in the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire, troubled university professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 dark comedy film A Serious Man, Griffin in Men in Black 3, Dr.

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Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.	Life	101
I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.		102
I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.		103
My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me.		104
Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.		105
I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.		106
I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.		107
I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.		108
Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.		109
I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.		110

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