Quotes from David Harbour

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.

Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of 'Stranger Things.'

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.

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.

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.

The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.

The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and look sexy.

I can like Michael Keaton's Batman, and I can like Christian Bale's Batman.

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.'

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.

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

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?'

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.

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

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.

If you are misunderstood, I want you to know that I feel the same way.

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.

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

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?

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.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

Never take advice, including this.

I am a dude who is meant to be on a couch in New York City thumbing through magazines.

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.