Top 31 Strathairn Quotes
#1. Belief is an odd thing for a defense counsel, Tommy. It is not necessary to believe in your client to defend him. Some would say that it is easier to not truly have an opinion, that the maneuverings of the law are only clouded by the emotions of trust and honesty. But
John Katzenbach
#2. When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's. It's the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the 'Drive it? Hug it?' phase. I run it on biodiesel.
Woody Harrelson
#3. If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
David Strathairn
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. For additional clarification, a five-word modifier helps: go easy on junk foods.
Marion Nestle
#7. To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death.
Hannah
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
David Strathairn
#12. That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.
Catherine Tate
#14. Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
David Strathairn
#15. So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
David Strathairn
#16. In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
William James
#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. 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
#19. Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
Andre Maurois
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
David Strathairn
#23. I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Abbas Kiarostami
#24. 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
#25. Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
David Strathairn
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
David Strathairn
#29. Once you look at your problems as "workout situations," they take on a whole new aspect.
Chris Prentiss
#31. When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
David Strathairn
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