Ed Harris movie quotes

“I believe it is easier for people to survive on this train if they have some level of insanity.”
Ed Harris - Wilford

“That's what's great about this country. If you want it bad enough, you can make it back. Hmm? In this city, on this island, we don't go to work, we go to war! And if somebody takes something from you, you take it back. And more.”
Ed Harris - David Englander

- Remy Bressant: How well do you know "Cheese" Jean Baptiste?
- Helene McCready: Who?
- Nick Poole: Come on, sweetheart. "Cheese" Jean Baptiste.
- Helene McCready: Oh, sounds familiar.
- Remy Bressant: No. It don't "sound familiar", Helene. He's a violent sociopathic Haitain criminal named Cheese. Either you know him or you don't.
Ed Harris - Remy Bressant
Amy Ryan - Helene McCready
John Ashton - Nick Poole

“Where I come from, you die with your secrets.”
Ed Harris - Remy Bressant

“Loneliness is my religion.”
Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“- Mission Control: Matt, do you have visual on just what Mission Specialist Shariff is doing up there?
- Matt Kowalski: He appears to be doing some form of the Macarena or that would be just a best guess scenario on my part.”
Ed Harris - Mission Control
George Clooney - Matt Kowalski

“- Patrick Kenzie: My priest says shame is God telling you what you did was wrong.
- Remy Bressant: Fuck him.
- Patrick Kenzie: Murder's a sin.
- Remy Bressant: Depends on who you do it to.”
Casey Affleck - Patrick Kenzie
Ed Harris - Remy Bressant

“- Christof: I know you better than you know yourself.
- Truman Burbank: You never had a camera in my head!”
Ed Harris - Christof
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank

“We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. We are tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there's nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a life.”
Ed Harris - Christof

“John, sooner or later - sooner, I think - you're gonna learn a lesson that's been learned by everyone who's ever gotten close to Richard Nixon. That he's the darkness reaching out for the darkness. And eventually, it's either you or him. Your grave's already been dug, John.”
Ed Harris - E. Howard Hunt

“- Matt Kowalski: Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission.
- Mission Control: Please elaborate.
- Matt Kowalski: Well, it reminds of a story.”
George Clooney - Matt Kowalski
Ed Harris - Mission Control

“- Mike Michaelson: The show has generated enormous revenues now equivalent to the gross national product of a small country.
- Christof: People forget it takes the population of an entire country to keep the show running.
- Mike Michaelson: Since the show is on 24 hours a day without commercial interruption, all those staggering revenues are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harry Shearer - Mike Michaelson
Ed Harris - Christof

“- Truman Burbank: Who are you?
- Christof: I am the creator, of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.
- Truman Burbank: Then who am I?
- Christof: You're the star.”
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank
Ed Harris - Christof

“- Truman Burbank: Was nothing real?
- Christof: You were real. That's what made you so good to watch...”
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank
Ed Harris - Christof

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

“Cop couldn't find his dick with two hands and a map.”
Ed Harris - Dave Moss

“- John Dean: Can I ask you a question? How the hell do you have the temerity to blackmail the President of the United States?
- E. Howard Hunt: That's not the question, John. The question is: why is he paying?”
David Hyde Pierce - John Dean
Ed Harris - E. Howard Hunt

“- Colonel Berman: One thousand gallons of Mop & Glow... my God, do we really need that much?
- Ray Elwood: Well, cleanliness is next to godliness.”

Ed Harris - Colonel Berman
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“You're the first visitor I've had here in two years since them behavioral science boys come to see me. Wanna know about my childhood and shit. Did my folks beat me, abuse me, sex me up? I tried telling 'em there ain't no formula for people like me. What we are dealing with here is just predisposition for an appetite. Good parents, bad parents....” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed Harris - Blair Sullivan

“When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand?”
Ed Harris - Bud Brigman

There was a woman. She was hiding with her baby. And some men with knives came. They killed her and they took her baby. And then an old man-no relation, just an old man-stepped forward and he said, "Give me the knife". And everyone thought he'd kill the baby himself. But he took the knife and he cut off his arm. And he said, "Eat this, if you're... (continue)(continue reading)

Ed Harris - Curtis

“- Captain Darrow: Excuse me, General... but what about the fucking money?
- General Francis X. Hummel: There is no fucking money. The mission's over.
- Captain Frye: Bullshit it's over!
- Major Tom Baxter: You're talking to a General, soldier! Maintain discipline.
- Captain Darrow: I'm not a soldier, Major. The day we took hostages, we became...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tony Todd - Captain Darrow
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel
Gregory Sporleder - Captain Frye
David Morse - Major Tom Baxter

“- John Patrick Mason: All I know is that you were big in Vietnam, I saw the highlights on television.
- General Francis X. Hummel: Then you probably have no idea what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into combat and then watch their memories get betrayed by their own fucking government.”
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“- Charlie Dick: Hey, I want you to get your coat. I want to drive you some place for a drink. I want us to dance awhile, then I want us to get to know each other a lot better.
- Patsy Cline: You want a lot don't you?
- Charlie Dick: Yeah I do baby.
- Patsy Cline: Well people in Hell want ice water, that don't mean they get it.”
Ed Harris - Charlie Dick
Jessica Lange - Patsy Cline