You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

Harrison Ford

Categorized in : Grateful Appreciate Gratitude

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.

giving-up focus careers

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.

news citizens morning

You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.

balance-and-harmony land order

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky br... by Harrison Ford

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

hard-work luck mind

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever. by Harrison Ford

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

left children

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. by Harrison Ford

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

scientist shock statistics

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.

support giving long

When I first started out, I was a bad actor. by Harrison Ford

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

ambient-music actors firsts

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imi... by Harrison Ford

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

real play thinking

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and... by Harrison Ford

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

aging hell men

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

rap character kids

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon." by Harrison Ford

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

assistants occupation icons

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

levis wranglers choices

Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.

dad sorry doors

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

focus giving people

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

caring action thinking

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had t... by Harrison Ford

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

suffering

What I hate is the loss of anonymity. by Harrison Ford

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

hate loss fame

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my... by Harrison Ford

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

influence kids people

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a f... by Harrison Ford

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

opportunity father son