David Strathairn Quotes

• Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

  David Strathairn

  Real, Perfect, Decision

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• Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

  David Strathairn

  Stories, Literature, Culture

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• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

  David Strathairn

  Thinking, Energy, Film

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• When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

  David Strathairn

  Death, Animal, People

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• When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

  David Strathairn

  Character, Thinking, Creating

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• If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

  David Strathairn

  Roles, Legends, Materials

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• It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

  David Strathairn

  Confederate, Amendments

  "Fictional character: William Seward". "Lincoln", 2012.

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• You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

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  Team, Weakness, Likes

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• If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

  David Strathairn

  Talking, Journalism, Edward R Murrow

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• In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

  David Strathairn

  Party, Order, Crash

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• Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

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  Library, Television, Film

  "Interview with David Strathairn of The Whistleblower". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. July 21, 2011.

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• Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

  David Strathairn

  Book, Library, Television

  Interview with Ray Pride, moviecitynews.com. October 28, 2005.

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• I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

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  Trying, Would Be, Harsh

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• I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

  David Strathairn

  Thinking, Weight

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