Chris Harrison Quotes

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Every day is not perfect.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

One of the first things I said to my kids and we all agreed upon when we first started shooting the show was if we're going to do this, we're all in. We're not going to worry about editing ourselves. So that's what you see. It's raw, and it's real, and it's footage that hopefully people learn from some of our experiences.

I love to do things that kind of mess with the movie formula that you can always find the right place to park; you've always got a phone signal. And I think audiences really respond to the limitations of real life when they intrude on drama.

Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

When I wake up in the morning, do I think I'm a role model? Yes. I'm not trying to have a pristine image, because a real role model shows you to the good and ugly.

Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.