Ed Harris Quotes

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

I just keep thinking of how many times I've heard Ferguson effect. And I've heard it because of protests, officers are afraid to do their job because of - because of a YouTube effect.

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.

I love being in a courtroom.