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Harrison Ford

(1942) Actor United States

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Harrison Ford is an actor from the United States, best known for Patriot games.

Quick Facts About Harrison Ford

Born: July 13, 1942
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Patriot games
Spouse: Calista Flockhart

About Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is an American actor. Regarded as a cinematic cultural icon, Ford's accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, an Emmy Award, five Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award, Honorary César, Honorary Palme d'Or and SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

AFI Life Achievement Award Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Honorary César Disney Legends California Hall of Fame Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by Harrison Ford · Page 2

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

Fall

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I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit.…

Advantage

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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to…

Age

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Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do…

Do it yourself

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I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

Distant relationship

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I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in…

Enough

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For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

Actors

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What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated…

Can do

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Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

Absolutely nothing

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We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the…

Assuming

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I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special…

Effects

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

Big changes

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I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something…

Actors

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What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring…

Changed

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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…

Bus

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When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

Found

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I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to…

Behaviour

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I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always…

Character

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I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be…

Able

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I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies…

Age

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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Age

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

Anger

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I am not saying the word fluffy.

Language

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

Hard

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

Carpentry

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