Harrison Ford quotes
Born
July 13, 1942, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation
Actor, producer.
Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the Star Wars film series and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
Movies
42 (2013)
Air Force One (1997)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
My approach to acting is the ‘let’s pretend’ school of acting.
– Harrison Ford
I’ve always been somewhere down from the top, so I’ve never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
– Harrison Ford
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
– Harrison Ford
I’d love to do another ‘Indiana Jones.’ A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director – what’s not to like?
– Harrison Ford
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
– Harrison Ford
I’ve never wanted to be the boss.
– Harrison Ford
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn’t pay very well.
– Harrison Ford
I’m addicted to Altoids. I call them ‘acting pills.’
– Harrison Ford
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
– Harrison Ford
You may get real tired watching me, but I’m not going to quit.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
– Harrison Ford
If you’re asking me to acknowledge that I’ve gotten older, I can do that.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
– Harrison Ford
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven’t been the most adored.
– Harrison Ford
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn’t mean you have to act science fiction.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
Hollywood’s got its own particular environment.
– Harrison Ford
Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.
– Harrison Ford
What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
– Harrison Ford
You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
– Harrison Ford
My older kids are fantastic people. It can’t be the result of my influence on them.
– Harrison Ford
The original ‘Star Wars’ that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
– Harrison Ford
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
– Harrison Ford
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
– Harrison Ford
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
– Harrison Ford
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
– Harrison Ford
Some actors couldn’t figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.
– Harrison Ford
I rarely play a real person, because I don’t think I’m a good imitator.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn’t like it a bit.
– Harrison Ford
Everything I do, I’m sort of half in, half out.
– Harrison Ford
J. J. Abrams is a director that I’ve admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote – including ‘Regarding Henry,’ which I was in.
– Harrison Ford
The set for ‘Blade Runner‘ was maybe the hardest set I’ve ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
– Harrison Ford
Really, what are the options? Levi’s or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It’s one of those life choices.
– Harrison Ford
I accrued anger from people’s low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I’ve never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I’d like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I’ve never flown to Alaska.
– Harrison Ford
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it’s misinterpreted.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
I could take Sean Connery in a fight… I could definitely take him.
– Harrison Ford
I don’t like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
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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.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
The actor’s popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
If I were a serious person, I’d probably have a real job.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
It’s very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I’m actually taking a pee at the time.
– Harrison Ford
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.
– Harrison Ford
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
– Harrison Ford
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
– Harrison Ford