Top 226 Quotes & Sayings by Harrison Ford
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Last updated on September 20, 2024.
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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.
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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 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.
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.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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 retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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 went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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 was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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 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.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
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.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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 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.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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.
'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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.
I've never wanted to be the boss.
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.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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