Danny Strong Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I took a lot of writing courses.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

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 think I've had my fill of electoral law.

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.

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 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.