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16 quotes by David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor who 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...
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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... →

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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.

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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