Ed Harris Quotes

United States, Actor
November 28, 1950

Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. His performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), Pollock (2000) and The Hours (2002) earned him critical acclaim as well as Academy Award nominations. Harris has appeared in several leading and supporting roles, such as The Right Stuff (1983), The Abyss (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Nixon (1995), The Rock (1996), Stepmom (1998), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Enemy at the Gates (2001), A History of Violence (2005), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Snowpiercer (2013) and Mother! (2017). In addition to directing Pollock, Harris also directed the western Appaloosa (2008).

Also known as Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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.

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- City
- Day
- Sleep
I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

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- Good
- Feel
- Getting Older

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.

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- Time
- Family
- Friends
I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

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

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- Life
- Important
- Me
You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

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- You
- Yourself
- Often
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.

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- Work
- Fun
- Past
Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

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- Job
- Yourself
- Seeing

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.

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- People
- War
- Fear
A lot of films come out before they're finished.

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- Come
- Finished
- Out
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.

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- Good
- Different
- Done
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

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- Feel
- Place
- Still
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.

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

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- Time
- Work
- Important

Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.

Ed Harris
- Writing
- Done
- Interesting
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Ed Harris
- Things
- Public
- Radio
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
- Life
- Past
- Years