A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

Money is really only important if you don't have any.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

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.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

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

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

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.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

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.

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

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

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.

[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.

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

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.

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

[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.

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

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

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

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.

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.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types.

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

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.

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.

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

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

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.