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Harrison Ford Biography

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the Star Wars film series and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017); John Book in the thriller Witness (1985), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor; and Jack Ryan in the action films Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994).

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There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but. . . the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can.

Hard Work, Jobs, Jungle, Passion, Paths, Worker

When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better. ’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

Keep, Looks, Russian, Sorry, Thinking, Worthy

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills. '

Acting, Addicted, Call, Pills

I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

Children, Fides, Opportunity, Right, Sick

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

Actors, Easily, Fellows, Gave, Gave Up

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 fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

Fashion, Hip, Old, Reason, Shoes, Thinking

Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Fiction, Film, Mean, Science

What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.

Important, Movie, Overall, People, Thinking, Useful

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

Ideas, Indiana, Jones, Leather Jackets, Putting, Shot

[On being an actor]. nothing more than a worker in a service occupation. It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

Gas, Like, Patience, People, Time, Waiter

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

Environment, Issue, Issues, Polarizing, Political

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

Bits, Completely, Private, Private Life, Public, Unprepared

If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs.

Come, Nice, People, Sex, Sign

I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie.

Harrison, Ideas, Rickey, Served, Thinking, Would Be

I shaved my hairline back and dyed my hair and wore a little powder, a little paint, a fat suit, and I changed my voice, but the emotions were consistent with what the point of the scene [with Branch Rickey] was.

Branches, Hair, Hairline, Powder, Voice

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

Anonymity, Fame, Hate, Loss

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.

Everybody, Improve, Lines, Thinking, Trying

We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.

Believe, Led, Long, Responsibility, Treaty, War

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

America, Baseball, Rest, Terms, World

My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.

Continue, Fun, Game, Games, Important, Love

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