Woody Harrelson Quotes

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor and playwright. His breakout role came in 1985 as bartender Woody Boyd in the television sitcom Cheers. He later became known for his portrayals of Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump , Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers , Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt , Tallahassee in Zombieland , Capt. Tony Stone in The Messenger , Dave Brown in Rampart , Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series , Merritt McKinney in the Now You See Me film series , the Colonel in War for the Planet of the Apes , Bill Willoughby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , and Tobias Beckett in Solo: A Star Wars Story

Harrelson has been nominated for an Academy Award three times; he was nominated for Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt and Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. For his role in Cheers, he earned five Emmy Award nominations and won one in 1989.

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Woody Harrelson Quotes

“Because superior non-animal methods are used for this exact training by military and civilian programs around the world, animals are clearly not required to meet your objectives. … I'm sure you agree that our military personnel deserve state-of-the-art training and that our country deserves to be respected for its civilized treatment of animals.”

Letter that he sent to the Army, against the use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises; full text in "Woody Harrelson Fights Army Tests on Chimps", in Usnews.com (13 September 2011) https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/09/13/woody-harrelson-fights-army-tests-on-chimps.

“It's been at least 20 years. I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up. The first thing was dairy. I was about 24 years old and I had tons of acne and mucus. I met some random girl on a bus who told me to quit dairy and all those symptoms would go away three days later. By God she was right.”

Interview with Maxim magazine, explaining why he became vegan; as quoted in "Woody Harrelson’s Vegan Acne Cure", in HuffingtonPost.com (23 September 2009) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/woody-harrelsons-vegan-ac_n_295765.html.

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