Harrison Ford Quotes

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I’m aware of that now, which doesn’t give me a lot of pleasure.

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• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it’s misinterpreted.

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• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

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• What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

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• There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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• Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn’t pay very well.

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• Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, “Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I’ve got a home that I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.” If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.

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• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

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• Everything I do, I’m sort of half in, half out.

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• It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

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• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I’m in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don’t know who they’re talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

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• I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

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• All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

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• Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

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• Really, what are the options? Levi’s or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It’s one of those life choices.

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• Hollywood’s got its own particular environment.

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• It doesn’t interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don’t want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don’t take myself seriously.

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• I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn’t give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

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• Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn’t for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

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• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

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Harrison Ford (56)

Birth:	13th July, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an American actor. His role in several films include: American Graffiti, The Conversation, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Witness(nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), Presumed Innocent, Patriot Games, The Fugitive, Clear and Present Danger, Air Force One, What Lies Beneath, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Blade Runner 2049.

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