Harrison Ford Quotes

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

You can only write your own vision.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody else had that look. I kind of adopted my boarding-school look, which made me stand out. Then the next thing you know, the first song on my first record is a song called "School Days." It's about going to the boarding school I went to. So then I just started to write about myself. The very first song I ever wrote was about a guy I met in a boatyard that we were working in. So I've always had this thing about sticking to more or less what I knew.

I think the beauty of the film industry is that if another person tries to become another person or act like another person or imitate another person, they don't really get too far. When that person starts to realize who they are and what they can bring to the table, they start to blossom and grow. With that, it's not so much me looking towards my predecessors who have paved the way in the industry - it's more getting inspired. I get little bits and pieces of what I can take from any and everybody.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and be kind to yourself. And do the work to cultivate who you are and what your point of view is. Don't try to be like anybody else. That's what will make you an interesting artist.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.

I'm inspired by other people, but I don't really try to look like a certain person or anything. I kind of just do what I feel like doing.

I look to many different women for inspiration but try to make things my own.

Lena Dunham or Miranda July, those people are sort of thinking about their work in a slightly different way than I do, where their whole body is a seed of what they're creating. I can't imagine watching Miranda's movies with anybody else playing her role, she's so integral. But for me, it feels more like every story is really individual. If I thought of something else, or thought it should be my body representing it, I'd fold my body into it. But most of the time I'm writing to get something out of my body.