Harrison Ford Quotes (82 Quotes)



    We hope to get started this summer. I can't tell you anything about it.

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

    Polanski shoots in Europe and generally works with European producing partners. He has nonetheless managed to attract Hollywood stars - like Sigourney Weaver in 1994's Death and the Maiden ... Frantic.

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


    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 didn't just wake up one morning 63 years old, so it's not a real blow to me. It's been incremental. I've been able to accommodate.

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

    It works for him Steven Spielberg because there's a child-like glee in it that's part of the whole process. It's not just dumb, it's dumb and inspired and gleeful . . .

    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.


    He's probably best known for his work as a gay artist who lived next door to a cranky, obsessive-compulsive writer played by Jack Nicholson in 1997's As Good As It Gets. ... Sabrina.

    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.


    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 found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.


    Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon.

    I don't answer questions about my private life, ... Hollywood Homicide.

    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 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.

    Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

    What amuses me most about Skip is he often represents everyone in the deal, ... And, he does a really good job for everybody I've always walked away from every negotiation and thought, 'Jesus, how did he get that'

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

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

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


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


    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.

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

    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?'


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