I always think you can tell a lot about a person by how they talk to their cab driver.

Jeremy Strong

Categorized in : Always You Think Person

Being an actor adjacent to the media industry, I pay attention to that landscape.

being landscape media attention

I've always wanted to be part of stories about social justice - urgent, meaningful, substantial dramas.

about always social-justice justice

You feel a huge sense of responsibility when you're playing a real person.

person feel you responsibility

I've never had any money.

had any never money

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'

short doing big media

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

outsider background like business

It was the middle of winter, Con Edison had shut off my power, and I didn't have an agent. I made this VHS tape of some monologues, but I didn't even have the money for a MetroCard. So I walked the tapes 'round to the different agencies in town.

money different power winter

I'm very lucky to have a very nurturing, close family.

close nurturing family lucky

I've been very lucky because I've gotten to work with some incredible actors.

some because lucky work

'Lincoln' was a very sacred workplace. Everyone did a lot of research for that movie and wanted to show up informed and ready to enter that world.

everyone workplace research world

They mean a lot to him. Unfortunately, they're consistently disappointing, which I understand, i mean, any parent is both in love with their child, but there's also expecting sometimes too much of them. You know, we're all guilty of that. We can put terrible pressure on our children in order to validate themselves, you know ?