Danny Strong Quotes

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time I was like, "Who wrote this? This is unbelievable." And then the credits came up at the end and it was Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. It's just an amazing piece of writing.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

I took a lot of writing courses.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

Screenwriting is definitely the majority of my time, but I do still act when stuff comes up. I do a few jobs a year.People ask me that all the time about written something for yourself to star in, and it's strange. I just approach it as two separate careers.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.