Quotes by David Strathairn - Page 1

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
David Strathairn / Actor
Decision
Perfect
Real
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When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
David Strathairn / Actor
Death
Animal
Mind
People
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
David Strathairn / Actor
Book
History Books
Library
Television
Libraries
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I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
David Strathairn / Actor
Thinking
Weight
Carried
Murrow
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It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
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Amendments
Confederate
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Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
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Film
Library
Television
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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
David Strathairn / Actor
Edward R Murrow
Journalism
Talking
Edward
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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 / Actor
Legends
Materials
Roles
Actual
Lots
Legend
Laid
Material
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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 / Actor
Ends
Energy
Film
Thinking
So Much Money
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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 / Actor
Clown
Crash
Order
Party
Skit
Quite A While
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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 / Actor
Culture
Literature
Stories
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It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.
David Strathairn / Actor
Validation
Life People Real
Attached
Be Real
Bell
Whistle
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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 / Actor
Biographies
Photographs
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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 / Actor
Character
Creating
Thinking
Guesses
Murrow
Pick
Pick And Choose
Table
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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.
David Strathairn / Actor
Burned
Harsh
Pipe
Throat
Tobacco
Trying
Would Be
Checked
Easiest
Ended
Slower
Types
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It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.
David Strathairn / Actor
Compelling
Progression
Scene
Sight
Strict
Structure
Theme
Builds
Chord
Pushes
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I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.
David Strathairn / Actor
Cigarette
Genuine
Research
Time Believe Me
Butt
Time Look Believe
George
Nailed
Newsroom
Time Period
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I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.
David Strathairn / Actor
Important Issues
Legacy
Realised
Beautifully
Delivered
Objective
Presented
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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.
David Strathairn / Actor
Likes
Shorthand
Team
Weakness
Work Good Enough
Work Good Day
Develop
Strengths
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In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.
David Strathairn / Actor
Bedrock
Constitutional Rights
Inspire
Constitutional
Drawn
Essential
George
Populace
Presents
Vital
Whoever
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