Harrison Ford Quotes (82 Quotes)


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

    It was great fun working on that stuff with Sean Connery. It was a question of just give and take, passing the ball at the right time, seeing who was open.

    Henry Jones I didn't know you could fly a plane. Indiana Jones Fly, yes....land, no.

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

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

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

    All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

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

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

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

    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.

    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.

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

    We have the script in hand and it would be great if Sean were on board.

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

    There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

    Henry Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana Dad, they come in through the doors.

    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.

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

    I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.

    That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time. It's now 40 years later and the world has changed a lot, and the people have too.

    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.

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


    I'm not an action hero. I do thrillers, with action in them.

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

    I don't feel good about taking the platform, merely on account of my celebrity. I believe that the people I support are in a position to make a better argument for the cause, based on facts and their expertise, than I am on the authority of my celebrity.

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

    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 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.

    Sallah Please, what does it always mean, this 'Junior' Henry That's his name. Henry Jones, Junior. Indiana I like Indiana. Henry We named the dog Indiana.

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

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

    YAHOOOOO You're all clear, kid. Now let's blow this thing and go home.

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

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

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

    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.

    There was a beginning, a middle and an end. Then gone. He left a huge impression.

    Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

    Luck certainly has a lot to do with any kind of success. But on the other hand, this is a business in which relationships are very important. And also there is oft times a degree of complexity to those relationships. She was always able to represent my point of a view in a way that made it palatable to whoever she was dealing with.

    Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

    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 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.

    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.


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