Strathairn David Quotes

#1. Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Laurence J. Peter

#2. I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

Lydia Lunch

#3. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

Blaise Pascal

#4. Following Locke's doctrine that the mind is a tabula rasa, Helvetius considered the differences between individuals entirely due to differences of education: in every individual, his talents and his virtues are the effect of his instruction.

Bertrand Russell

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

David Strathairn

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

Suze Orman

#9. I'm inspired by almost every artist I come across.

Michelle Chamuel

#10. Justice is getting what you deserve.
Mercy is not getting what you deserve.
And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift

Cathleen Falsani

#11. The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

George Wald

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

David Strathairn

#16. I move to slug him in the shoulder, and he laughs and grab my hand and links my finger with his. It feels like my heart is beating right through my hand. It's the first time we've hold hands for real, and it feels different from those fake times. like electric currents, in a good way. The best way.

Jenny Han

#17. 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

#18. God's grace and patience can never run out. He has already forgiven every mistake you will ever make.

Paul Silway

#19. Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

David Strathairn

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

David Strathairn

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

David Strathairn

#25. 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

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

David Strathairn

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

David Strathairn

#30. Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

David Strathairn

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

David Strathairn