Quotes By Harrison Ford

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

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

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

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

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

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.

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

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 rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

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

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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.

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

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

What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

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'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

I've never wanted to be the boss.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.