David Harbour Quotes

David Harbour

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 10, 1975

I'm very interested in the drama of the leading man being someone who is incapable, becoming capable.

David Harbour

I grew up doing regional Shakespeare, and when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, there's something about that that you don't really do in film anymore.

David Harbour

I love all kinds of stuff. I really am so eclectic in my taste. I love film noir, I love thrillers, and I love big blockbuster popcorn cinema stuff, but I like it when it's twinged with a bit more social consciousness.

David Harbour

I really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough.

David Harbour

I think I'm very hard on myself. I think I've always been very hard on myself since I was a kid.

David Harbour

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

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.'

David Harbour

The more I work in the film business, the more I see that those guys, the directors, have the most fun on set.

David Harbour

I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'

David Harbour

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

David Harbour

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.

David Harbour

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.'

David Harbour

I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.

David Harbour

The Duffer Brothers are so attentive to story and detail while being wildly respectful of me and what I bring to the process.

David Harbour

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.

David Harbour

Never take advice, including this.

David Harbour

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

David Harbour

I'm a big fan of public trust.

David Harbour

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

David Harbour

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

David Harbour