Harrison Ford Quotes

• What is news? It’s hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality – a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It’s harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

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• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

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  Topics in Opportunity, Success

• The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it’s a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn’t change – it hasn’t suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It’s still a cowboy movie. And that’s what’s incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that’s new territory.

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• Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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  Topics in Age, Job

• My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

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  Topics in Work

• It’s very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I’m actually taking a pee at the time.

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• If you’re asking me to acknowledge that I’ve gotten older, I can do that.

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• If I were a serious person, I’d probably have a real job.

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• I’ve never wanted to be the boss.

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• I’m addicted to Altoids. I call them ‘acting pills.’

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• I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn’t like it a bit.

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  Topics in Life

• I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

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  Topics in Age, Work

• I think retirement’s for old people. I’m still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I’m enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

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  Topics in Life

• I don’t do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

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  Topics in Work

• I accrued anger from people’s low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

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  Topics in Work

• I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

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  Topics in Challenge, Life

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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