Ed Harris movie quotes

“You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.”
Ed Harris

“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

“But the truth is, we're not the one been teachin' Radio, Radio's the one been teachin' us - cause the way he treats us all the time is the way we wish we treated each other even part of the time.”

Ed Harris - Coach Jones

“- Radio: This is Radio. What pants do I put on?
- Coach: Just grab something...
- Radio: How 'bout this one?
- Coach: Those look fine Radio.”

Cuba Gooding Jr. - Radio
Ed Harris - Coach Jones

“- Leonard Dekkom: Tomorrow, the sun will rise, all our enemies will be gone. Wiped away as if by the Hand of God.
- President Andrew Palma: Why would you do this?
- Leonard Dekkom: Because no-one else would. I'm turning the clock back to 1945, when America was a shining city on a hill, not just a bank disguised as a country.
- President Andrew...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - Leonard Dekkom
Andy Garcia - President Andrew Palma

“You need to maintain a proper balance of anxiety and fear and chaos and horror in order to keep life going. And if we don't have that, we need to invent it.”
Ed Harris - Wilford

“You're a better man than me, Radio.”

Ed Harris - Coach Jones

“- Randall Bragg: Mr. Everett Hitch. You a drinking man, Everett?
- Virgil Cole: Not so much.
- Randall Bragg: Hard to like a man who doesn't drink a little.
- Virgil Cole: But not impossible.”
Jeremy Irons - Randall Bragg
Ed Harris - Virgil Cole

“He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.”

Ed Harris - Christof

“We do things as a team, gentlemen.”
Ed Harris - Coach Jones

“I don't care about what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.”
Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“You take him out of this school, you might as well just take his life from him.”
Ed Harris - Coach Jones

“- Blake: You see this watch? You see this watch?
- Dave Moss: Yeah.
- Blake: That watch costs more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much'd you make? You see, pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing.”
Alec Baldwin - Blake
Ed Harris - Dave Moss

“When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real.”
Ed Harris - Man in Black

“Winning doesn't mean anything unless someone else loses, which means you're here to be the loser.”
Ed Harris - Man in Black

“- Marlon: The point is, I would gladly step in front of traffic for you Truman. And the last thing I would ever do to you...
- Christof: ... is lie to you.
- Marlon: ...is lie to you.”

Noah Emmerich - Marlon
Ed Harris - Christof

“You know what I hate about myself? I know what people taste like. I know babies taste the best.”
Ed Harris - Curtis

“- RETRO White: Flight, we are looking at a typhoon warning on the edge of the prime recovery zone. Now, this is just a warning, it could miss them...
- Gene Kranz: Yeah, only if their luck changes.”
Googy Gress - RETRO White
Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“Science is all about playing God. Sometimes God doesn't play so nice.”
Ed Harris - Leonard Dekkom

“The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.”
Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“An artist is someone who has learnt to trust in himself.”
Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“- Virgil Cole: [showing him fabric samples] Tell her she can pick whichever one she likes. You know, I'm kind of partial to this one here, but look. Look at that. You can see right through it.
- Everett Hitch: Kind of small for curtains, aren't they?”
Ed Harris - Virgil Cole
Viggo Mortensen - Everett Hitch

“- Virgil Cole: Your boys do like the bylaws say, everything will be muy bueno.
- Randall Bragg: And if they don't?
- Virgil Cole: I arrest them.
- Randall Bragg: And if they don't go along?
- Virgil Cole: I shoot them.”
Ed Harris - Virgil Cole
Jeremy Irons - Randall Bragg

“Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.”
Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“- Leonard Dekkom: How the hell did you...
- President Andrew Palma: How? Because I'm the goddamn President of the United States of America!”
Ed Harris - Leonard Dekkom
Andy Garcia - President Andrew Palma