Ed Harris Quotes
If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
-
Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
-
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
-
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
-
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
-
There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
-
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
-
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
-
I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
-
In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
-
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
-
I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
-
I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
-
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
-
Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
-
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
-
I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
-
Every morning as I begin my work day, my computer presents me with the usual array of garbage: email, Twitter, updates on the state of the nation, updates on the state of the sneakers I just ordered.
-
I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
-
When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
-
If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
