Ed Harris quotes His role as John Glenn in 'The Right Stuff' (1983) Born: 11/28/1950 Country: usa

• A lot of films come out before they're finished. (Ed Harris)
• For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done. (Ed Harris)
• I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job. (Ed Harris)
• I certainly didn't begin this to begin a career as film director. But I don't want to do direct just to direct. (Ed Harris) [career/film/director]
• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. (Ed Harris) [people/matter]
• I connect as a person who believes in God. I've been somewhat lazy in my pursuit of what my beliefs really are. (Ed Harris) [god/beliefs]
• I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing. (Ed Harris)
• I got in athletics, which gave me self-esteem and made me feel like I had a place in the world; that was the initial attraction with acting for me. (Ed Harris) [attraction]
• I had been living with this thing, Pollock, for years, and the first few weeks in Germany, I didn't even look at it. (Ed Harris) [thing/look]
• I had seen some theater and really loved it. So I began studying acting at the University of Oklahoma, and then I went on to CalArts for a couple of years. (Ed Harris) [university]
• 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) [family/time]
• I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time. (Ed Harris) [family/group/time]
• I like to act with people that know what they're doing. (Ed Harris) [people]
• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. (Ed Harris) [radio]
• I lived with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam. He'd lost a leg and an arm and was not in a good place emotionally. (Ed Harris)
• 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) [love/think/people/people]
• I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. (Ed Harris) [career]
• 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) [think/people/think]
• I try not to get locked in. I've played a number of bad guys, a number of military guys, and a number of other kinds of parts. (Ed Harris) [bad/military]
• I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary. (Ed Harris) [life]
• I was this jock playing football and baseball for 20 years and had virtually no aesthetic development. (Ed Harris) [development]
• I'd rather win it than have somebody else's name called out-it's only natural. (Ed Harris)
• 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) [feelings/people/being/naive]
• 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) [past/take/advantage]
• 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) [think/right]
• 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)
• 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) [past/life]
• It's about being open to the moment of creation, not manipulating it, and trusting that you may not know where to go. (Ed Harris) [being/moment/creation]
• 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. (Ed Harris) [film/experience]
• It's kind of nice to be back in the independent world. (Ed Harris) [nice]
• It's not like I want to start a career as a director, I just had a particular feeling and I didn't want to hand the vision over. (Ed Harris) [start/career/director/feeling]

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