Ed Harris Quotes

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.

We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.