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Ed Harris
American
Actor
About the author
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,
American
Actor
#Film
#Experience
I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#Art
#Being
I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#People
#Saying
#Fear
#War
#Decision
#Soldiers
For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
#Thought
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#Want
#Time
#Work
#Family
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#Right
#Love
#People
#Country
#Conservative
#Extreme
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#Now
#Life
#Years
#Past
#Post
Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#Open
#Job
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,
American
Actor
#Time
#Family
#Friends
A lot of films come out before they're finished.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#Right
#Job
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,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#Right
#People
#Being
#Feelings
I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#Life
One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
#Acting
#First
You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor
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,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#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,
American
Actor
#Forget
#Fighting
#Oil
#Religious
#Competition
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,
American
Actor
#Talk
#Time
#Now
#War
#First
#Iraq
#Media
#Credibility
When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
Ed Harris,
American
Actor