David Harbour

“When I was in 8th grade, I saw Branagh's 'Henry V' in the Paris Theater, and it changed my life.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It was always my dream to be a New York theater actor. I never thought I was pretty enough to be on camera.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Never take advice, including this.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”