David Strathairn Quotes

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Strathairn

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Emotional

• I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Love
  • Books
  • Unknown

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Kids
  • Things
  • Young

• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enough
  • Actor
  • Busy

• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Today
  • Career
  • Hate

• I came from a real working-class show business family.

  

  Sally Field
  • Real
  • Family
  • Business

• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Man

• Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• Yeah there ain't nothing not affectedWhen two hearts get connected.All that is, will be, or ever was.Every single choice we make,Every breath we get to take,Is all because two people fell in love.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • People
  • Single

• One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Live
  • Done

• I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Father

• When I was a kid, there was nothing better than water balloon fights. I grew up in Brooklyn: we had the fire hydrants, and we would open up a soda can at both ends and squirt people walking by. I love the kinds of things that encourage you to let your guard down, be open and vulnerable, and just to be laughing sincerely.

  

  Dawnn Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Water

• I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!

  

  Karen Fukuhara
  • Character
  • American

• My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

  

  William Kunstler
  • Law
  • Annoying
  • Annoyed

• God himself took this human flesh upon him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Humans
  • Flesh

• A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

  

  Zengzi
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Together

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

  

  David Strathairn