Ed Harris movie quotes

“- Colonel Berman: McCovey was on the pill? How could this be possible?
- Ray Elwood: Well, he might have taken it by mistake, sir.
- Colonel Berman: What?
- Ray Elwood: The birth control pill. He might've thought it was something ele.
- Colonel Berman: Well, fine, but he didn't take heroin, speed and cocaine by mistake, did he?
- Ray Elwood: It...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed Harris - Colonel Berman
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“- Allison French: I'm afraid all the time.
- Virgil Cole: Of what?
- Allison French: Everything.
- Virgil Cole: Like what? Hmm?
- Allison French: Like being alone. Like being with the wrong man. Not having any money, a place to live.”
Renee Zellweger - Allison French
Ed Harris - Virgil Cole

“You've seen what people do without leadership. They devour one another.”

Ed Harris - Wilford

“You see how cozy it can be when you decide to play nice?”

Ed Harris - Carl Fogarty

“You ever been to the tail section? Do you have any idea what went on back there? When we boarded? It was chaos. Yeah, we didn't freeze to death, but we didn't have time to be thankful. Wilford's soldiers came and they took everything. A thousand people in an iron box. No food, no water. After a month, we ate the weak.”

Ed Harris - Curtis

“- Wilford: Curtis, everyone has their preordained position, and everyone is in their place except you.
- Curtis: That's what people in the best place say to the people in the worst place.”
Ed Harris - Wilford
Chris Evans - Curtis

“- Christof: In competition with five other unwanted pregnancies, the casting of a show determined by an airdate, Truman was the one who arrived on cue.
- Mike Michaelson: Incidentally, I believe Truman is the first child to have been legally adopted by a corporation?
- Christof: That's correct.”

Ed Harris - Christof
Harry Shearer - Mike Michaelson

“- V: Nobody's treated me the way you do before.
- Tom: How do I treat you?
- V: Like a person.
- Tom: How does everybody else treat you?
- V: Like a hooker.
- Tom: Why do they treat you like that?
- V: Because I am hooker!”
Melanie Griffith - V
Ed Harris - Tom

“- John Glenn: If you don't want the Vice President or the TV networks or anybody else to come into the house, then that's it, as far as I'm concerned. They are not coming in, and I will back you all the way, a hundred percent on this. And you tell them that, ok? I don't want Johnson or any of the rest of them to set as much as one toe inside our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - John Glenn
Mary Jo Deschanel - Annie Glenn

“A man's gonna do anything for his family.”
Ed Harris - Eddie Lorenzo

“- John Glenn: I'm tired of being forthright, gracious and magnanimous.
- Gordon Cooper: Yeah.
- John Glenn: I'm tired of these stupid questions from the press.
- Gordon Cooper: Mm-hm.
- John Glenn: I'm tired of smocks, I'm tired of engineers telling us what we can't do, I'm tired of everybody that says we are not pilots!”
Ed Harris - John Glenn
Dennis Quaid - Gordon Cooper

“- Sylvia: What right do you have to take a baby and turn his life into some kind of mockery? Don't you ever feel guilty?
- Christof: I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.
- Sylvia: He's not a performer, he's a prisoner. Look at him, look...” (continue)(continue reading)
Natascha McElhone - Sylvia
Ed Harris - Christof

“- Dave Moss: He's the top man on the board so he doesn't have to sit here and listen to this shit?
- Williamson: That's correct! And as the hour is waning I suggest you those of you who are interested in a continuing job with this organization, get to work!”

Ed Harris - Dave Moss
Kevin Spacey - John Williamson

“- Kate Whitney: He doesn't want you to find him, you're not gonna find him.
- Seth Frank: You're saying what? He left town, he skipped the country? What?
- Kate Whitney: I'm saying, you won't recognize him. I'm saying, he could be right around the corner.”

Laura Linney - Kate Whitney
Ed Harris - Seth Frank

“- Network Executive: For God's sake, Chris! The whole world is watching. We can't let him die in front of a live audience!
- Christof: He was born in front of a live audience.”
Philip Baker Hall - Network Executive
Ed Harris - Christof

“- Lindsey Brigman: I got over four years invested in this project.
- Bud Brigman: Yeah, you only had three years invested in me.
- Lindsey Brigman: Well you have to have priorities.”
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Lindsey Brigman
Ed Harris - Bud Brigman

“This isn't about terrorism, it's about justice. It's about reminding you people of something you find politically convenient to forget.”
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“The men of Marine Force recon are selected to carry out illegal operations throughout the world. When they don't come home, their families are told fairy tales about what happened to them... and denied compensation. Well, I have choked on these lies my entire career. Well here and now the lies stop!”
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel

“- Mitch Wilkinson: Your great-great granddaddy planned the assassination of President Lincoln.
- Patrick Gates: It can't be.”
Ed Harris - Mitch Wilkinson
Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates

“- Allison French: Oh, nobody always tells the truth.
- Virgil Cole: Why not?
- Allison French: Well, they... for heaven's sake, Virgil, they just don't.
- Virgil Cole: Always thought the truth was simpler.”
Renee Zellweger - Allison French
Ed Harris - Virgil Cole

“- Blair Sullivan: You never been in a war?
- Paul Armstrong: No.
- Blair Sullivan: Korea? Vietnam? You ever do a little hit and run with the BMW? Never told the wifey to get an abortion? A little piece o' chicken on the side - here's $300 dollars doll face, get taken care of.”
Ed Harris - Blair Sullivan
Sir Sean Connery - Paul Armstrong

“- General Francis X. Hummel: Major Anderson, if you have any concern for the lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons and place them on the deck.
- Ernest Paxton: This is not happening...
- Commander Anderson: Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - General Francis X. Hummel
William Forsythe - Ernest Paxton
Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson

“- NASA Director: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever experienced.
- Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.”

Joe Spano - NASA Director
Ed Harris - Gene Kranz

“- Emily Appleton: You're a treasure hunter, aren't you?
- Mitch Wilkinson: I'm just a man, trying to make his mark on history.”
Helen Mirren - Emily Appleton
Ed Harris - Mitch Wilkinson

“I'm a very difficult person, but I take comfort in the fact that God made me that way.”

Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven