David Harbour is an American stage and movie actor born in New York City on 10th April 1975 to Nancy Riley(mother) & John Kenneth Harbour(father).
David is popular for playing Jim Hopper in Netflix Supernatural science fiction horror drama 'Stranger Things'. His role as agent Gregg Beam in British spy film Quantum of Solace is popular as well.
Stranger Things' David Harbour Originally Wanted the Role of Eleven
Short Profile
- First Name: David
- Last Name: Harbour
- Profession: Movie Actor
- Age: 44 years
- Birth Sign: Aries
- Birth Date: April 10, 1974
- Birth Place: New York
- Education: (High School) Byram Hills High School (Armonk, New York)
- Education(College): Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
- Alma Mater: Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
- City: New York
- Country: New York
1. 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
2. I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression. David Harbour
3. 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
4. We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive. David Harbour
5. 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
6. One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it. David Harbour
7. One of the things about having played a lot of villains is... I don't have the same experience of someone who maybe has been a leading man since they were 22 and therefore looks at certain things in a character to romanticize themselves. I actually very much embrace the bad stuff. David Harbour
8. I'm normally a pretty loquacious, kind of fun person. David Harbour
9. Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It's a conversation, not a sledgehammer. David Harbour
10. In a sense, human beings are human beings. Their feelings of aloneness, of brokenness, their feelings of hurt and disappointment, are universal. It's the ways they choose to act on their feelings that separates them. David Harbour
11. People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things. David Harbour
12. What I'm dealing with in 'Hellboy' is a lot different, bigger in a certain way. It's very Shakespearean. It's demons and witches and stuff like that. But it has a similar core to a dude who's trapped in horrible circumstances who's just trying to be a good guy. David Harbour
13. 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
14. 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
15. I want to bring love handles and eating sandwiches back. David Harbour
16. I think one of the worst notes I think I've ever received was Ang Lee on 'Brokeback Mountain.' He came in on coverage, and he was like, 'More, more handsome.' I was like, 'I'll try that.' David Harbour
17. 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
18. I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is being in a mental asylum. Really, really not as fun as you think it is. David Harbour
19. I do feel like anything benefits from character logic. That can be from the dumbest ad to the greatest Shakespearean drama to the silliest 'Saturday Night Live' sketch. There is a certain specificity in detail, which you can get when you're paying attention to stuff like that. David Harbour
20. I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be drama, could be horror, could be thriller. David Harbour
21. Netflix sees people as users or subscribers or customers. Historically, networks have seen people as viewers. David Harbour
22. There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question that. It can be very freeing... like, my ego or my individuality trumps society's law. David Harbour
23. I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually sort of unworthy of the same rights or empathy. I don't understand that. David Harbour
34. I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity of existence: that nobody escapes scot-free. We're all going to wind up - at the best-case scenario - 80, 85, 90, broken, in pain, and feeling like it was all a dream and not really understanding the point of any of it. David Harbour
35. I am a dude who is meant to be on a couch in New York City thumbing through magazines. David Harbour
36. I'm terrified of the ocean. I think it's beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it - I think that's a metaphor for a lot of things. David Harbour
37. I'm terrified of the unknown, which is a driving force for me. I like this idea that the things that terrify us also draw us in. David Harbour
38. I feel like the most human among us are the weirdest among us. Those voices can be the most creative and the most special. You look around at your parents, your friends, your aunts and uncles, and you realize nobody is normal. David Harbour
39. People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me. David Harbour
40. The interesting thing about my career is for years I was trying to do that thing of getting in shape and looking cool - I would look at myself in camera angles and think how my chin looked the best and all this stuff. And I really couldn't get that much work. David Harbour
41. When you push and pull heavy things, your body thinks it's going to die, and so it's like, 'I better get bigger, in case we do that tomorrow.' David Harbour
42. Those Duffer Brothers really know how to tell a story, and I think it makes you want to watch. 'Stranger Things' is remarkably watchable. David Harbour
43. There is a lot of good television out there, stuff that is better for you than 'Stranger Things,' that, critically, people would be like, 'This is an important show,' but I would press you to find a show that's more watchable. That's hard to do. David Harbour
44. If you want to really get in shape and get strong, there's these things called 'sleds.' You take a weighted sled, and you just push it across the floor, and then you drag it back. And, basically, if you do that for 20 minutes a day, you'll look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you put enough weight on it, it's the hardest thing in the world. David Harbour
45. I was diagnosed as bipolar. David Harbour
46. At the end of the day, my biggest fear in life is that I'm gonna wind up being an actor who plays the dad on a TV show like 'Full House' or 'Small Wonder' or something - I'm, like, the desexualized dad in the show 'Alf.' David Harbour
47. I'm a man. I'm not gonna wear dad jeans or whatever you call them. David Harbour
48. With 'Deadpool' and 'Logan,' they are trying to do different things. David Harbour
49. I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I would occasionally go to the theater and watch what people's responses were, and they would laugh. He makes jokes, and people would respond to him in a human way. Then I've really done my job if I've humanized a really horrible person. David Harbour
50. At the end of the day, what I try to bring to villainous characters is a sense of humanity. David Harbour
51. I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people. David Harbour
52. I'm around 6'4' and 240 pounds. So I rarely feel that intimidated by other men. But I've got to give it up to Terry Bradshaw. That guy is a complete bulldog. David Harbour
53. With a lot of projects, you never know if it's going to be executed properly. And also, you never know if people are going to respond to it. David Harbour
54. I did a movie with Jamie Foxx that was kind of action, and, you know, Jim Hopper's a little bit action; he does throw a good punch. David Harbour
55. Some people get very successful for something they're very cynical about - like Alec Guinness in 'Star Wars.' He thought it was ridiculous. Whereas for me, I'm so proud of 'Stranger Things.' I'm so proud of everyone's work in it. And it's become so successful. So for those two to meet is incredible.David Harbour
56. One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone. David Harbour
57. I tend to find that movies have become so slick that I have trouble identifying with the characters. David Harbour
58. When I was in 8th grade, I saw Branagh's 'Henry V' in the Paris Theater, and it changed my life. David Harbour
59. I feel like Shakespeare is so epic, in a way that sci-fi genre stuff is epic, it transcends the mundane, and it takes you to this place of real passion and real beauty. David Harbour
60. When that Twitter account came out, @HopperDancingTo, and they put me to all these different songs, I thought that's pretty much one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I watched that for a couple hours straight, him dancing to George Michael and all these stupid songs. David Harbour
61. I'm always fascinated emotionally in the moment that someone pulls a gun, even a cop. That action - I don't know that I, personally, as a human being, could do it. David Harbour
62. In this business, certainly it's a lot crazier for women than it is for men, but there's such a thing where there's a lot of judgment on the way you look and on your body. David Harbour
63. The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and look sexy. David Harbour
64. The fact that I got famous and became a sex symbol around my normal, frumpy, love-handled self is so gratifying - and, dare I say, culturally gratifying as well. David Harbour
65. What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look. David Harbour
66. All I've ever wanted to do as an actor was move people. David Harbour
67. That's all I've ever wanted to do is to feel like what you're doing moves someone, and that ultimately, maybe they can make a different choice in their life that may be better, right? David Harbour
68. I don't want to do procedural: I want to do longform. David Harbour
69. The one thing I can say about the 'Stranger Things' cast that I don't often feel when I do television and movies is that every single actor on that show that I've interacted with is a good-hearted person. David Harbour
70. As much as I can, I like to curate the information the people know personally about me. David Harbour
71. I try to keep it separate as I can, but also, I'm not going to live my life in complete privacy. If I'm feeling something, I'm going to live my life. I will not hide things. David Harbour
72. It was always my dream to be a New York theater actor. I never thought I was pretty enough to be on camera. David Harbour
73. People are more complicated than you give them credit for. David Harbour
74. 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
75. Life really is too short. David Harbour
76. 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
77. I can like Michael Keaton's Batman, and I can like Christian Bale's Batman. David Harbour
78. 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
79. I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it. David Harbour
80. I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece. David Harbour
81. If you are misunderstood, I want you to know that I feel the same way. David Harbour
82. 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
83. It's, like, weird to watch a human being develop. David Harbour
84. Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of 'Stranger Things.' David Harbour
85. All of Aaron Sorkin's characters are so smart. David Harbour
86. 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
87. If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people. David Harbour
88. 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
89. 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
90. I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head. David Harbour
91. I'm very interested in the drama of the leading man being someone who is incapable, becoming capable. David Harbour
92. I loved 'True Detective' so much in Season 1, and then when the Season 2 monstrosity came around, I was like, 'What is this show? What have you done to this show?' David Harbour
93. 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
94. I really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough. David Harbour
95. 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
96. 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
97. 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
98. 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
99. I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.' David Harbour
100. The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake. David Harbour
101. 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
102. A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders. David Harbour
103. I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations. David Harbour
104. I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell. David Harbour
105. 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
106. 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
107. Never take advice, including this.David Harbour
108. Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.David Harbour
109. I'm a big fan of public trust. David Harbour*Thanks for reading my favorite motivational quotes of this year, I wish you a wonderful year and hope you can look to these inspirational words whenever you need a book so you may confidently crush any challenges or goals that you set for yourself.
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