Quotes

“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.” Woody Harrelson

“If I'm in Maui, I play soccer and tennis and go kite-surfing. I prefer doing a sport as opposed to going to a gym. I'm not big on gyms. When I did 'Rampart,' I lost 30 pounds because I felt it was better for the character. I worked out constantly, maybe twice a day, and minimized caloric intake.” Woody Harrelson

“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

“The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.” Woody Harrelson

“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.” Woody Harrelson

“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

“I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.” Woody Harrelson

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

“Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.” Woody Harrelson

“I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimming in organic cotton sheets.” Woody Harrelson

“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.” Woody Harrelson

“'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.” Woody Harrelson

“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