Woody Harrelson quotes

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

— Woody Harrelson

“With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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

“I used to have terrible acne on my face: red, splotchy discoloration. And mucus - I was constantly blowing my nose. Then one day, this woman sits down next to me on a bus, and says, 'You're lactose-intolerant.' It all cleared up in three days. That changed my life. Doctors couldn't figure it out.”

— Woody Harrelson

“The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.”

— Woody Harrelson

“I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.”

— Woody Harrelson

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

— Woody Harrelson

“I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.”

— Woody Harrelson

“I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.”

— Woody Harrelson

“I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.”

— Woody Harrelson

“Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.”

— Woody Harrelson

“I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.”

— Woody Harrelson

“I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.”

— Woody Harrelson

“I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.”

— Woody Harrelson

“I'm not a Twinkie lover. I don't do sugar or dairy either.”

— Woody Harrelson

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

— Woody Harrelson

“There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.”

— Woody Harrelson

“Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson

“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.”

— Woody Harrelson