Danny Strong Quotes

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

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

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

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

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

It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.

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

I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."

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 think I've had my fill of electoral law.

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.

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

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

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 took a lot of writing courses.

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

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

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.

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

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

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.

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.

Whatever strength, courage... madness keeps us going, we find it, in times like these. You have it, soldier. It's what kept you alive all this time.