Ed Harris movie quotes

“God whispers into the ears of some men, but he shouts into mine.”
Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“Howdy. Uh... how are you guys doing?”

Ed Harris - Bud Brigman

“- Interviewer: How do you know when you're finished with a painting?
- Jackson Pollock: How do you know when you're finished making love?”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“Always giving parties to cover the silence.”
Ed Harris - Richard Brown

“- Paul Armstrong: Did you kill her?
- Blair Sullivan: I ain't gonna tell you if I killed that little girl or not. Even if I did, how would you know to believe me? Killing is easy for me. How hard do you think lying is?”
Sir Sean Connery - Paul Armstrong
Ed Harris - Blair Sullivan

“I'm filled with power! You might think I'm impotent prisoner, handcuffed and shackled, locked in a eight by seven cell each night and day, but I'm filled with strength that reaches way beyond these bars, sir! I can crush anyone I want to just as these hands dialing a telephone! There's no one beyond my reach! You hear me, no one!”

Ed Harris - Blair Sullivan

“- Jackson Pollock: I'm dead without her.
- Ruth Kligman: But I'm the one who loves you, Jackson.”

Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Ruth Kligman

“- Charlie Dick: I want to get to know you better.
- Patsy Cline: Ok, now what does that mean?
- Charlie Dick: Means I want to get to know you better.
- Patsy Cline: See, I figure when you say you want to get to know me better, what you really mean is you want a ten minute screw in the back seat of your car.
- Charlie Dick: Son of a bitch. You...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - Charlie Dick
Jessica Lange - Patsy Cline

“- Luke Harrison: Anna! You do not run out on your mother!
- Anna Harrison: No, that's your job.”
Ed Harris - Luke Harrison
Jena Malone - Anna Harrison

“- Charlie Dick: I don't have to come crawling after some mean mouthed woman who got a cob crossways. Hell, if I just want to bump uglies with somebody, I got plenty of places to go for that.
- Patsy Cline: Bump uglies?
- Charlie Dick: That's right.
- Patsy Cline: My lord Charlie, what a charming expression.”
Ed Harris - Charlie Dick
Jessica Lange - Patsy Cline

“- Mrs. Berman: When was the last time you even held a rifle? Do you even know which end the fucking bullets come out? Why, in your opinion, was it a good idea to challenge Marshall to a training exercise when you're Supply and he's Infantry?
- Colonel Berman: You're the one who told me I should go on the attack.
- Mrs. Berman: Right, I said...” (continue)(continue reading)
Elizabeth McGovern - Mrs. Berman
Ed Harris - Colonel Berman

“No key. It's common time. It's growing, gaining strength. Then the struggle. Pulled down. Half notes. And then, a voice, a single frail voice emerges, soaring above the sound. The striving continues, moving below the surface. And then, God answers. We're raised up into heaven. Cello remains earthbound, but the other voices soar suspended, for an...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“- Major Tom Baxter: I thought you weren't ready to kill.
- General Francis X. Hummel: I'm warmin' up.”
David Morse - Major Tom Baxter
Ed Harris

“- Lee Krasner: You're not just randomly putting paint on the canvas, you're painting something. You can't abstract from nothing, you can only abstract from life, from nature.
- Jackson Pollock: I am nature.”
Marcia Gay Harden - Lee Krasner
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“Blame it on the war - it's everybody's excuse.”
Ed Harris - Jack Walsh

“All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims. The thing that interests me is that today, painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. They work from a different source, they work from within. It seems to me that the artist cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“The rich getting richer, that's the law of the land.”
Ed Harris - Dave Moss

“Fuck Picasso.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“She thinks I'm an asshole. And if she thinks that about me, what in the long run is she going to think about you?”
Ed Harris - Frankie Flannery

“- Network Executive: Do you know that there's a rumor circulating that he's dead? You hear me? The media is having a feeding frenzy with this, all the phone lines are jammed, and every network has a pirated shot of Marlon making an ass of himself in front of the cameras!
- Network Executive: The sponsors are threatening to rip up their...” (continue)(continue reading)

Philip Baker Hall - Network Executive
John Pleshette - Network Executive
Ed Harris - Christof

“I blame people. I've been blaming people so much. And I've been hurting people. That sucks. They're the people that cared about me mostly I guess but I didn't... you know... I thought... No, I think, I think I don't deserve them caring about me because I don't like me very much. But hey, it's time! If not for me then for the people that didn't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - Dave

“- John Glenn: I'm talking about the playing around that's going on. I'm talking about the young girls. I'm talking about the cookies. I'm talking about keeping our pants zipped and our wicks dry around here!
- Alan Shepard: Mr. Glenn, you are way out of line. I'd advise you not to try and foist your view of morality on anybody else in this group.”
Ed Harris - John Glenn
Scott Glenn - Alan Shepard

“I moved here and I thought, Great! I'm outta the big city and I'm finally in a place where everybody isn't gonna be crawling up everybody's asshole every day! A place where maybe my biggest nightmare is going to be getting some goddamn cat out of a tree! But forget that! Everybody is insane, everywhere!”
Ed Harris - Sheriff Alan Pangborn

“Modern art, to me, is nothing more than the expression of the contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

- Repairman: Just part of my job.
- Seth Frank: I hate it when people say that. "Just part of my job". It is your fucking job!
John Lyle Campbell - Repairman
Ed Harris - Seth Frank