Ed Harris Quotes

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

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

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.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

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.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit!

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

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

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

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

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.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I can make a damn pork chop. My best dish is actually lasagna, which I do a couple times a year. My wife wishes I cooked a little bit more often, but I can put a frozen pizza in the oven and I make a good salad.

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

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

I'm an actor who loves to direct film, if I find something that I'm compelled to do and want to spend three or four years doing. I really love the process, though. I might have to just say, "Yeah, I want to direct that," because I want to direct something, but that's just not the way my being is. It's got to be a necessity for me, otherwise I'll just keep acting.

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

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