Ed Harris Quotes

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

I love America, and I love living here.

That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

I have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my head and have it be shared with the world.

My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!

I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing about.

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want to always remember that music can heal and it can make someone's day.

Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

I really wanted to get out of England.

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

I like playing in other projects.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I love having other people sing my songs.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

Garden work clears the mind.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.