Quotes By Harrison Ford

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

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

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

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?'

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

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

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.

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

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

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

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.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

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

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

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

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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

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.

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

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

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

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

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've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.