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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me. ”

I tend to find that movies have become so slick that I have trouble identifying with the characters. ”

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. ”

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

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things. ”

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. ”