Quotes from Richard Harris

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree