Ed Harris Quotes

I'm a spa person. Massages keep me relaxed, so I always try to make time for them when I tour.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?

Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

Hey, our hair's the same color, " I said, eying us side by side in the mirror."Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.