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Quotes by Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

“A grownup is a child with layers on.”

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise”

“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder whats to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didnt have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.”

“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves”

“Weve had bad luck with children; theyve all grown up”

“As we grow better, we meet better people”

“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

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

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 theyre not all bad.

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.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think its in our unity that well have the greatest strength.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

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.

When I had just started Cheers, my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What youre 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.

Ive been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw its a pretty dreadful feeling.

Natural Born Killers is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

We dont get the greatest tools to deal with anger. Its like, Hey, count to 10. When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I dont usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.