Ed Harris Quotes

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

You have to be careful when you're doing an interview.

I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so...subjective!

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish the cultural meaning of the book, part and whole.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

A police state is a country run by criminals

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.