Woody Harrelson Quotes (33 Quotes)

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.

In sixth grade, some kid was being inappropriate with a girl. I said he better stop. Next thing we're fighting. Then we're at the principal's office. I got just as much punishment as he did, even though I felt I did the right thing.

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.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

When I let up from the weed, and the drinking too, I cried every day. And I liked that. 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

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.

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.

I'm the only guy in my family, including our cats and dogs. I'm surrounded by these amazing women, and I have concerns about what happens to them in the world,

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.

Individual action is the most important thing. Individual action in concert, maybe with a lot of other people. It is an exponential growth.

On an Average Day.

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.

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.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

The guy went to hit the big time. He did well in hockey in high school and college and went to New York to join a great law firm and was going to be a partner and was married to a rich, beautiful girl, ... He was following his dream and along the way, he realized how hollow it was. He realized how really unhappy he was. That was in my mind more than anything, not how a lawyer acts.

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

Me, I'll cut up and horse around right up until they say 'Action But I loved seeing the preparation, the time she took. Before the cameras roll, in between setups, she is so present in the depth, in the feeling of what's going on with her character. And then, of course, you see the movie, and it's an amazing performance.

Now, coming back and doing these films, I really am just trying to be careful about the quality of the project. Really cautious.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

When we did the press conference in the range there was this interesting-looking guy who asked, 'So, you played a mass murderer, a pornographer and now a lawyer -- is there any depth to which you will not sink in your roles' I thought it was really funny, as if the most extreme of them was a lawyer,

One of the big things at the press conference was that people didn't want the accents to end up like 'Fargo,' which they felt were an exaggeration, ... We were all real conscientious of trying to get it right and the person in charge of getting the dialect right was amazing. We tried to be subtle.

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

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.

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.

And then going and just hanging with my family for a long time and living the life of Riley, I think was the best thing I could've done.

And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.

Bur I think all the environmental groups have to focus on at least one main issue together. That's the move we need to do right now.

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.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

Honestly, I felt incredibly welcome -- I thought that the whole area in the range opened up to us. I'm sure to some degree there were some people that weren't accepting of us, but at least they weren't showing it,