Will Harrison
Will Harrison
expectations roles television
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.
hero character play
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.
jobs ideas community
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.
thinking years games
I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.
independent thinking vision
I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used.
new-york choices actors
Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?
important ifs
Money is really only important if you don't have any.
lonely loneliness thinking
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.
grace luck credit
Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.
giving-up i-realized tied
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.
order land balance-and-harmony
You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.
taken opportunity should-have
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.
hard-work luck mind
Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.
morning citizens news
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.