American - Actor | April 10, 1975 -
I was very resistant to my intellectualism for a while. I do start with an intellectual idea for a character. A lot of the times, it'll be the opposite of what I feel like is on the page, or it'll be just an idea that I read in a psychology textbook or in a philosophy book. I'll apply something to it that I can start to tinker with.
David Harbour
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My natural state is a state of an explorer - a performer, but someone who wants to explore their experience and reflect on their experience more than just lie on the beach. Even when I go on vacations, I get stressed out if I'm at the beach for, like, two days. I'm like, 'Can't we do something? I can't just sit there.'
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The more I work in the film business, the more I see that those guys, the directors, have the most fun on set.
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I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'
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The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.
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The mythos of superheroes is our mythos today. They are American myths. 'Captain America,' 'Iron Man,' 'Hulk' - these are the biggest movies in the world. But sometimes, superhero movies can be a little bit thin.
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A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.
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One of the most beautiful things about Shakespeare's Hamlet is when he stops in the middle of the play to ask, 'To be or not to be?' Then, right at the end, he decides to 'let be.' The first season of 'Stranger Things' was Hopper asking whether 'to be or not to be' and the second is to 'let be.'
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I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.
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I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.
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The Duffer Brothers are so attentive to story and detail while being wildly respectful of me and what I bring to the process.
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You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.
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