Strathairn Quotes & Sayings

The thread that ties us to the center is the hidden cord of the heart, it is the thread of genius that can connect the mind with the heart, that allows the mind to feel and reveals the thought set within the heart. — Michael Meade

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

There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or Terence [Howard]. They aren't better than me. We all do different things. It's more of a celebration of a lot of great work than to give the gold to somebody. The underappreciated factor certainly has gone away. — Jeff Daniels

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

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

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. — David Strathairn

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed — Cassandra Clare

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds. — David Strathairn

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

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it. — Maisie Williams

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

God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasionally before, but it was not that common. And of course since it was a song that wasn't written by Irving Berlin until the 20th century (laughter), none of the 19th century presidents said God Bless America at the end of speeches, either. I think that the symbolism which suggests that everybody is religious and that even presidents who believe in church and state feel obliged to do this ... — Susan Jacoby

Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it - but I mean actual change. — George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero. — Maureen Jennings

There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love. — Stan Lee

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. — Lao-Tzu

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried. — David Strathairn

Decisions made in real time are never perfect. — David Strathairn

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

The brief span of an individual life is misleading. Each one of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom, and our bloodstreams are tributaries of the great sea of its total memory. The uterine odyssey of the growing foetus recapitulates the entire evolutionary past, and its central nervous system is a coded time scale, each nexus of neurones and each spinal level marking a symbolic station, a unit of neuronic time. — J.G. Ballard

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

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

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both. — David Strathairn

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

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had. — John F. Kennedy

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

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

You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry. -Bobby — D.J. MacHale

We pass through Time from birth in order to have from where to come, together with death. — Sorin Cerin

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. — David Strathairn

Our lips are millimeters from meeting again when he says, "I need to know something, and you have to promise to be honest." "I'm always honest with you," I protest. "Good. I'm holding you to that." Those gorgeous brown eyes gleam. "Did you throw the shootout?" I know exactly which shootout he's referring to. My lips quiver, so I press them together to keep from grinning. "Well?" I shrug. — Sarina Bowen

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

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