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"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences"

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Harrison Ford’s most effective move here is the gentle deflation of celebrity, delivered with the offhand dryness of someone who’d rather be flying than mythologizing himself. He’s not just saying, “I’m normal too.” He’s picking a very particular scene where fame is structurally irrelevant: a cockpit radio call with air-traffic control, a space designed to erase identity in favor of clarity and procedure. Up there, you’re not Han Solo or Indiana Jones; you’re a voice, a call sign, a set of coordinates that need to land safely. That’s not humility-by-PR. It’s a reminder that some systems still don’t care about your brand.

The subtext is Ford’s long-running discomfort with the machinery of celebrity. His public persona has always been allergic to showbiz self-importance, and aviation is his escape hatch: a private skill, governed by competence, where the stakes are real and the feedback is immediate. When he says “ordinary experience,” he’s subtly reframing what counts as “ordinary” for a world-famous actor: not grocery-store relatability, but moments where status simply cannot cash out.

“I have a lot of common experiences” lands as both sincere and faintly amused, because it acknowledges the absurdity of having to argue for your own humanity when culture has turned you into an icon. The line works because it doesn’t beg for connection; it finds it in a channel where everyone is equalized by noise, protocol, and gravity.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ford, Harrison. (2026, January 17). I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-the-ordinary-experience-of-being-anonymous-59766/

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Ford, Harrison. "I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-the-ordinary-experience-of-being-anonymous-59766/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-the-ordinary-experience-of-being-anonymous-59766/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is a Actor from USA.

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