Harrison Ford Quotes

• 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.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Success

• 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.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Job

• 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.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Guess, Happy

• You may get real tired watching me, but I’m not going to quit.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tired

• You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Old

• With the CGI, suddenly there’s a thousand enemies instead of six – the army goes off into the horizon. You don’t need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That’s something that’s consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that’s a soulless enterprise. It’s all kinetics without emotion.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship

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

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  Tags in Actor

• What’s important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important

• 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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  Tags in Educated, Informed

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easily

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Opportunity, Success

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

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Beauty

• The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Performance, School

• The actor’s popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forgotten

• Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don’t ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard, Improve

• Some actors couldn’t figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Figure, Rejection

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

  Harrison Ford

  Topics in 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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