Ed Harris Quotes

"I like to act with people that know what they're doing."
- Ed Harris
(Related: People, Act)

"Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Art, Being)

"I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Job)

"There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case."
- Ed Harris
(Related: War, People, Fear, Decision, Saying, Soldiers)

"For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done."
- Ed Harris

"I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Work, Thought, People)

"I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing."
- Ed Harris

"I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Family, Time, Work, Want)

"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Public)

"I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Love, People, Conservative, Country, Extreme, Right)

"I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Career, Decisions)

"In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Life, Now, Past, Post, Years)

"Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Job, Open)

"I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Family, Time, Friends)

"A lot of films come out before they're finished."
- Ed Harris

"I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do."
- Ed Harris
(Related: People)

"If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Challenge)

"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."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Job, Right)

"I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Work, Fun, Past)

"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."
- Ed Harris
(Related: People, Feelings, Being, Right)

"I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Life)

"One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Acting, First)

"You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else."
- Ed Harris

"You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Day, Fighting, Inspiring)

"You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Day, Sleep)

"You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Competition, Fighting, Forget, Oil, Religious)

"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."
- Ed Harris
(Related: Time, War, Credibility, First, Iraq, Media, Now, Talk)

"When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of."
- Ed Harris