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Ed Harris Biography

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).

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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

Direct, Done, Having, Proud

I can make a damn pork chop. My best dish is actually lasagna, which I do a couple times a year. My wife wishes I cooked a little bit more often, but I can put a frozen pizza in the oven and I make a good salad.

Chop, Couple, Make, Salad, Wife, Years

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

Ethnic, Fighting, Forget, Mostly, Oil, Religious

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

Film, Films, Leave, Material, Materials, Planets

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

Careers, Decision, Decisions, Made, Part, Shun

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

Case, Decision, People, Saying, War

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

Act, Know, Knows, Like, People

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

Credibility, Iraq, Mainstream, Media, Time, War

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

Family, Groups, Important, Tight, Time, Want

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

Concerned, Filling, Important, Necessary

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else

Become, Betray, Betrayal, Betrayed, Somebody

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

Daring, Looked, People, Thinking, Way

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.

Cities, Hours, Sleep, Start, Three

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

Jobs, Moving, Right, Think, Thinking, Worrying

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

Character, Expose, Kind, Truth, Willing

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

Book, Different, Different Experiences, Film, See

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Accept, Presented, Reality, Truth, World

I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit!

Boy, Drinking, Men, Pickup, Projects, Thinking

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

Come, Film, Films, Finished

I'm an actor who loves to direct film, if I find something that I'm compelled to do and want to spend three or four years doing. I really love the process, though. I might have to just say, "Yeah, I want to direct that," because I want to direct something, but that's just not the way my being is. It's got to be a necessity for me, otherwise I'll just keep acting.

Acting, Four, Loves, Three, Years

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