Harrison Ford Quotes

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"May the Force be with you" is charming but not important. What's important is that you become the Force — for yourself and perhaps for other people.

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I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

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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."

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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.

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After 20 years, the costume still fit, which was encouraging. And the character came back with the clothes. I think some trace of Indiana still resides in that leather jacket, hat, and whip.

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I don't use any particular method. I'm from the let's pretend school of acting.

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I wouldn't be doing this interview if I didn't like you.

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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.

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I just don't understand the need to name something "the best" or more better than something else. Saying one thing is better than another, one performance is better than another performance — there can't be a contest in this area. I don't understand that.

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

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[My approach to acting is] the "let's pretend" school of acting. If real emotion is available, use it, otherwise I follow what I think is an AA rule: "Fake it 'til you make it. Emotions are an interesting language. Sometime they sneak up on you when you're not expecting, when you are available to it.

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I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

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