Top 100 Harrelson Quotes
#1. 'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
Woody Harrelson
#2. To me, I think it's this thing of everyone wanting to make Jesus the Son of God and Jesus the only way to God that is the thing that no longer makes me want to be a Christian.
Woody Harrelson
#3. It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.
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#4. Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.
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#6. Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
Ken Harrelson
#8. We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.
Woody Harrelson
#9. So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.
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#10. To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board.
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#11. Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.
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#12. Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.
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#13. I was on my bus, and on my bus I have a yoga swing. Jennifes comes on, and she goes, ' Hi, Woody, I'm J
is that a sex swing?' Her first sentence to me.
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#14. In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
Ken Harrelson
#15. You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.
Woody Harrelson
#16. Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.
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#17. The more pitches you see, the more dangerous you become.
Ken Harrelson
#18. I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.
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#19. Hard work and perseverance trumps talent most of the time. Talent plus hard work? Virtually unstoppable.
T.C. Harrelson
#20. I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.
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#21. Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.
Ken Harrelson
#24. Raw food is the best way to have the cleanest energy. We take so much care about what kind of fuel we put in our car, what kind of oil. We care about that sometimes more than the fuel that we're looking at putting in our bodies. It's cleaner burning fuel.
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#25. I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.
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#26. In sixth grade, some kid was being inappropriate with a girl. I said he better stop. Next thing were fighting. Then were at the principals office. I got just as much punishment as he did, even though I felt I did the right thing.
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#27. Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.
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#28. I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.
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#29. I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!
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#30. I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.
Jesse Eisenberg
#31. If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?
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#32. I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character. With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie.
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#33. I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
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#34. There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.
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#35. I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.
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#36. I think it's wonderful to be here. And what a beautiful city you have here.
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#37. The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
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#38. Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.
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#40. The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy
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#41. Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.
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#42. I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.
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#43. Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Ken Harrelson
#44. With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.
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#47. I'm not a Twinkie lover. I don't do sugar or dairy either.
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#48. I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity go together. If you lose one per cent of your chaos, you lose your creativity.' I said that's the most brilliant thing I've heard. I needed to hear that years ago.
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#49. I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.
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#50. In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.
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#51. There may be trouble. Anybody goes in there needs to know how to handle a gun. Do you?"
Lovecraft angled her head back until she was looking at Harrelson down her nose. "I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun." pg. 221.
Jonathan L. Howard
#52. The forests are the lungs of the world. I've always believed if you breathe, you're an environmentalist.
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#53. When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.
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#55. You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.
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#57. I have my detractors, no doubt about it. I look at it as a compliment.
Ken Harrelson
#58. I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
Woody Harrelson
#59. It's not who you want to spend Friday night with. It's who you want to spend all day Saturday with.
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#60. in fact, I'm an advocate for the straight edge. I don't live it, but I advocate it. So I don't encourage anyone to do any drugs, but on the other hand I believe in freedom.
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#61. Sometimes I feel people think I live on a commune but I don't. We are all solar, though. There are no power lines. It's mostly farmers, so everyone who has tractors uses bio-diesel.
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#62. Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'
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#63. And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.
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#64. We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
Anthony Kiedis
#65. It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
Michelle Monaghan
#66. I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier
Woody Harrelson
#67. Everything I do, I try to think, 'Okay, what are the ramifications?' Like, with the clothes I wear, I prefer if it's grown organically, because cotton - which is what's used in most clothing - takes up 50 percent of all pesticide use.
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#69. The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.
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#70. I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'
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#71. With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been offered. Phenomenal.' But, I was daunted, you know? Like the concept of trying to be a cop. It's just bizarre, man. Bizarre to even think about.
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#72. I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.
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#73. On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop.
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#74. I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.
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#75. We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
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#76. I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
Ted Danson
#77. I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.
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#79. But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.
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#80. There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that
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#82. When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.
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#83. When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
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#84. I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in ... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.
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#85. I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.
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#86. Yoga is the best thing for your sex life. It keeps you limber in all kinds of ways. It teaches you to love your body and your partner's body. But more than anything, it keeps your mind liquid, and nothing's sexier than that.
Woody Harrelson
#87. Woody [Harrelson] and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.
Michelle Monaghan
#88. You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.
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#89. The only thing that's problematic is the constant explaining, the constant need to kind of go, No, I don't want that because of such and such. I feel like I'm a pain in the ass, and I don't like being difficult.
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#90. I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.
Woody Harrelson
#91. This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.
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#92. I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.
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#93. Lovecraft angled her head back until she was looking at Harrelson down her nose. "I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun.
Jonathan L. Howard
#94. It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.
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#95. I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
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#96. I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.
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#98. I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi.
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#99. When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched 'The Wild Wild West,' and so I wanted to be in the Secret Service like James West. At some point I realized, 'That guy is not in the Secret Service. He's an actor.' That sounds like a good idea too.
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#100. Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.
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