Ed Harris Quotes

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then I met David, and he had experience with kids and wanted to have a family, too.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard, ' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!