Ed Harris Quotes

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part.

I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?