Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Fordwas a Canadian-born American actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that lasted more than 50 years. Although he played many different roles, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 May 1916
CityQuebec, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
forget looking side
Don't forget when you're going up you're looking at the side of the mountain. When you're going down, you're looking at nothing.
giving-up tennis throwing
Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.
silly wind fifty
I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.
fashion strong fighting
Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true' is a rule to live by in Hollywood, especially. There's a strong undercurrent of conformity in the movie colony that one must fight all the time. I think this especially true when it comes to fashion, beauty and grooming.
screens
I've never played anyone but myself on screen.
hero matter sometimes
It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.
white feet people
I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.
fate cities democracy
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.
differences one-day might
I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.
years today nothing-ever-changes
Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.
friendship good-friend loss
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
feel-good mind kind
It feels good; my mind is going in all kind of directions. It feels good.
opposites trying lines
Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.
assistant several stage time
I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.