Ed Harris Quotes

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth.

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

"Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter

Eric,” she said, “maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we can go to a baby shower!” “That would be something to see,” said Eric

You never told me all this before," I said, by way of explanation. "You all have divided up America into kingdoms, is that right?

God bless the American spectator.

Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!" Why was I not surprised? "Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.

I always have been a guy that's always smiling, always laughing. And really, my family, man. Just them right there, when I see my little girls, I mean, that's just an automatic smile right there.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Words are dangerous things.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

Nobody can guard Kobe one-on-one. Nobody.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney.