Ed Harris Quotes

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

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

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.