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" Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories. "
Woody Harrelson
Great
Work
I Have Learned
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" With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been offered. Phenomenal.' But, I was daunted, you know? Like the concept of trying to be a cop. It's just bizarre, man. Bizarre to even think about. "
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Trying
Best
Man
" The war against terrorism is terrorism. "
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War
Terrorism
" 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. "
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" I'm not a Twinkie lover. I don't do sugar or dairy either. "
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Sugar
Either
Lover
" 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. "
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Strength
Together
" 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. "
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Remember
Me
" I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him. "
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Him
Year
Vote
" 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. "
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Home
Thinking
Dream
" Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat. "
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Tree
Two
Forward
" 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.' "
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Money
Great
Brainy
" I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre. "
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Love
Parks
Theatre
" 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. "
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Now
Back
Best
" 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
Cotton
Try
Think
" 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
Clothes
Swimming
Nothing
" 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
Right
Now
Down
" 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
You
Shoot
Like
" I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me. "
Woody Harrelson
Only
Sometimes
People
" 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
Tools
Me
Someone
" 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
New York
Airport
Character
" 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
School
College
Faith
" I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling. "
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Pretty
Nobody
Movies
" 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. "
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Say
Think
They Say
" To the men in Washington, the world is just a giant Monopoly board. "
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Washington
World
Men
" 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. "
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Overcome
Fear
Learning
" We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. "
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Blocking
War
Aid
" When I was younger, I wanted to be a cop. Then I watched 'The Wild Wild West,' and so I wanted to be in the Secret Service like James West. At some point I realized, 'That guy is not in the Secret Service. He's an actor.' That sounds like a good idea too. "
Woody Harrelson
Point
Like
Good
" I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution. "
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Things
Think
Wall
" And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining. "
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Guy
I Think
Think
" 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. "
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Daughter
Time
Obstacles
" I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.' "
Woody Harrelson
Better
Think
I Wish