You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come. Harrison Ford More Quotes by Harrison Ford More Quotes From Harrison Ford The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world. Harrison Ford effort team skills The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all. Harrison Ford Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out. Harrison Ford half Hollywood's got its own particular environment. Harrison Ford environmental environment hollywood I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing. Harrison Ford let-it-go scripts pushing Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well. Harrison Ford wells too-much pay All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor. Harrison Ford actors said wanted 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. Harrison Ford airplane ordinary talking Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident. Harrison Ford credit luck grace There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness. Harrison Ford lonely loneliness thinking No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it. Harrison Ford fake hero want Money is really only important if you don't have any. Harrison Ford important ifs Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there? Harrison Ford coins choices new-york It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff. Harrison Ford growing-up opportunity children 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. Harrison Ford tennis work-out play People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right. Harrison Ford helping people needs What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through. Harrison Ford chance people thinking [Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television. Harrison Ford writing book television Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones. Harrison Ford toys serious fun I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you," I always said, "Force yourself." ... I'll say again then, "The Force is within you. Force yourself." Harrison Ford may philosophy thinking
