David Harbour Quotes

David Harbour

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 10, 1975

People are more complicated than you give them credit for.

David Harbour

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

David Harbour

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

David Harbour

If I was in high school, and we had Twitter, and Harrison Ford was on Twitter, I totally would have tweeted him and asked for him to take my high school photos with me.

David Harbour

Life really is too short.

David Harbour

I can like Jack Nicolson's Joker, and I can like Heath Ledger's Joker. There's other Jokers I don't have to like.

David Harbour

I can like Michael Keaton's Batman, and I can like Christian Bale's Batman.

David Harbour

I'll put 'Stranger Things' up there with the best of it. I think it's such a profound show - it's very subtle in the way that it tells its story, but it's very effective. Every time I watch it, I feel something, which is very rare for me.

David Harbour

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

David Harbour

I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece.

David Harbour

If you are misunderstood, I want you to know that I feel the same way.

David Harbour

I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'

David Harbour

It's, like, weird to watch a human being develop.

David Harbour

All of Aaron Sorkin's characters are so smart.

David Harbour

I would like to see sexiness sort of embodied in people's real bodies, as opposed to those bodies that are just full of narcissism.

David Harbour

Sometimes I feel like, those superheroes, if you threw a cookie at them, they would be more terrified than the villain because they might have to eat a carbohydrate.

David Harbour

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

David Harbour

When I got to be, like, in high school and stuff, I sort of was drawn to that feeling of feeling uncomfortable in my skin and being confused by human beings, like, just constantly confused.

David Harbour

I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar.

David Harbour

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

David Harbour