Gregory Harrison Quotes

7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show.
Gregory Harrison

Show, Older, Since

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.
Gregory Harrison

Since, Actually, Singing

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
Gregory Harrison

Rock, Hard, Made

Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.
Gregory Harrison

Show, Brian, Cast

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Gregory Harrison

Music, Friends, Few

But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It's been a wonderful year.
Gregory Harrison

Sunday, Wait, Wonderful

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.
Gregory Harrison

Time, Movies, Nothing

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.
Gregory Harrison

Trying, Songs, Hollywood

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
Gregory Harrison

Actor, Aspect, Allowed

I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.
Gregory Harrison

Keep, Bit, Angel

I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
Gregory Harrison

Start, Show, Year

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.
Gregory Harrison

Life, Time, Hard

I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
Gregory Harrison

Family, Big, Times

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.
Gregory Harrison

Life, Girl, Tough

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.
Gregory Harrison

Through, Few, Develop

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.
Gregory Harrison

Family, Often, Lives

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.
Gregory Harrison

Enjoy, Before, Acting

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
Gregory Harrison

Age, Play, Guitar

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
Gregory Harrison

Love, Strength, Saying

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!
Gregory Harrison

Time, Keep, Loved

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing.
Gregory Harrison

Living, Around, Used

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.
Gregory Harrison

Old, While, Star

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
Gregory Harrison

Hollywood, Musical, Festival

Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.
Gregory Harrison

Music, Amazing, Blame

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.
Gregory Harrison

Mind, Words, Actor

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: May 31, 1950

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