Top 45 Harrison Ford Quotes

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn’t mean you have to act science fiction.

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

I think ‘Indiana Jones’ was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

J. J. Abrams is a director that I’ve admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote – including ‘Regarding Henry,’ which I was in.

If I were a serious person, I’d probably have a real job.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

My approach to acting is the ‘let’s pretend’ school of acting.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I’m aware of that now, which doesn’t give me a lot of pleasure.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I’m aware of that now, which doesn’t give me a lot of pleasure.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

I don’t mind doing interviews. I don’t mind answering thoughtful questions. But I’m not thrilled about answering questions like, ‘If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?’

I’m like old shoes. I’ve never been hip. I think the reason I’m still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

Hollywood’s got its own particular environment.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven’t been the most adored.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn’t pay very well.

I’m addicted to Altoids. I call them ‘acting pills.’

It’s very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I’m actually taking a pee at the time.

Really, what are the options? Levi’s or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It’s one of those life choices.

Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

It’s a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I’ve had the luck to work with, and it’s just been a great experience for me, and I’m glad that so many of the films I’ve had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won’t be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

I don’t like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

I’ve never wanted to be the boss.

I’ve never wanted to be the boss.

Some actors couldn’t figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I don’t do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.

I accrued anger from people’s low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it’s misinterpreted.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight… I could definitely take him.

I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I’ve never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I’d like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I’ve never flown to Alaska.

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can’t be the result of my influence on them.

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.