David Strathairn
David Strathairn
David Russell Strathairnis an American actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying journalist Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck. He is recognized for his role as CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen in the 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum, a role he reprised in 2012's The Bourne Legacy. He played a prominent role as Dr. Lee Rosen on the Syfy series Alphas from 2011 to 2012 and played Secretary of State William Henry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 January 1949
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
David Strathairn quotes about
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.
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
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.
I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
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.
You kind of get pigeonholed for various reasons. One thing I didn't do in this movie (that) I regret not doing was taking a pratfall. I think, as great as Edward R. Murrow was, in terms of cinema, you've gotta honor those great clowns.
When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
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.