David James Elliott Quotes

• I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn’s stand-in back in the ’30s in Hollywood.

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• Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

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• I remember on ‘JAG,’ Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

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• But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

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• I’ve never made choices based on money – I always trust my gut.

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• I’ve always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

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• You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

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• Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe – that all they’re interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they’re interested in learning something.

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  I’m the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

   

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• I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you’re 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.

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• I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn’t develop any bad habits.

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• I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We’d lead attacks. We’d break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

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David James Elliott (12)

Birth:	21st September, 1960
Nationality:	American, Canadian
Profession:	Actor, Television Director, Television Producer

About

David James Elliott was born in Milton, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian American actor who was the star of the series JAG, playing lead character Harmon Rabb Jr. from 1995 to 2005. In 1996, he starred in the made-for-cable movie Holiday Affair with Cynthia Gibb. This is a remake of the 1949 classic Holiday Affair which starred Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. In 2005, he starred in a Canadian television movie The Man Who Lost Himself. In 2014, Elliott appeared in Mad Men as Dave Wooster. In 2015, Elliott guest starred in the TV drama Scorpion. In 2015, Elliott will play John Wayne in the upcoming film Trumbo.

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