Harrison Ford Quotes

In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money. ~ Harrison Ford

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon. ~ Harrison Ford

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him. ~ Minnie Driver

There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but ... the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can. ~ Harrison Ford

Colonel Sanders as played by Hot Daddy Harrison Ford, cracking the whip on some island plantation, topping every native boy, stopping only long enough to enjoy a refreshing Coca Cola. Because every white guy is a blonde, Aryan top. All of us are the Christian Soldiers of Capitalism that flew TWA into your country, depositing AIDs in your brothels and IMF loans in your banks. ~ Tom Cardamone

I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure. ~ Harrison Ford

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility. ~ Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well. ~ Nonso Anozie

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.' ~ Harrison Ford

The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business. ~ Scott Bakula

I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types. ~ Harrison Ford

In my mind at that time, at 14, the men who were successful were Stallone and Schwarzenegger and guys like that - Harrison Ford - who were these men of action. I was like, "Okay, they're successful, they're not getting evicted, they built their bodies - I'm gonna go build my body." It was like that. ~ Dwayne Johnson

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

To me, success is choice and opportunity. ~ Harrison Ford

Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot. ~ Harrison Ford

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story. ~ Harrison Ford

The force is within you, force yourself. ~ Harrison Ford

Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures]. ~ Harrison Ford

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years. ~ 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 think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like. ~ Harrison Ford

[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public. ~ Harrison Ford

As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the problem of identification. In The Conversation I played a character who was gay, so nobody recognised me from American Graffiti. When I did Apocalypse Now, after Star Wars, I played an intelligence officer of the American army. George Lucas saw the footage I had done and didn't recognise me until halfway through the scene. ~ Harrison Ford

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story. ~ Harrison Ford

'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. ~ Harrison Ford

I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them. ~ Harrison Ford

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident. ~ Harrison Ford

I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial. ~ 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

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

Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid. ~ Harrison Ford

Wanda was one of the sighers and moaners, the omigod-I-never-dreamed-it-could-be-like-this-types. When she wasn't purring with cinematic sincerity, she was a warm and giving bedmate with the full complement of womanly slopes and curves and warm, tender places. Sometime around dawn, she told me I looked like Harrison Ford. Or was it Henry Ford? ~ Paul Levine

I think people's perception is that when you're famous, you want people to love you. That's a big part of why people become famous, because they don't just want love, they want it on a grand scale. But once you realize - and it's not a big trick to really figure it out - that it's just completely artificial, an external pumping of the ego that's never going to really help you, then it's an easy thing to step out of it. That's probably why Harrison Ford lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. ~ Woody Harrelson

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it. ~ Harrison Ford

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

Then again: from the critic's point of view, one of the truly wonderful things about the Star Wars universe is that the territory is so sprawling and borrows from so many sources that it's possible to find just about anything here, if you look hard enough. For example, the story of the original movie can also be summarized as, A restless young boy chafes at life on the dusty old family farm, until he meets a wizard and is swept away to a wondrous land where he meets some munchkins, a tin man, a cowardly lion and Harrison Ford as the scarecrow. ~ David Brin

I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them. ~ Harrison Ford

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. ~ 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

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely. ~ Harrison Ford

To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great. ~ Paul Dano

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series. ~ Harrison Ford

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

I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero. ~ Joey Lawrence

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director. ~ Harrison Ford

I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people. ~ Asa Butterfield

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

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth. ~ Harrison Ford

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. ~ Harrison Ford

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element. ~ Harrison Ford

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. ~ Harrison Ford

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part. ~ Harrison Ford

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. ~ Harrison Ford

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

I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies. ~ Guy Wilson

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage. ~ Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it. ~ Thomas Jane

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it. ~ Harrison Ford

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. ~ Harrison Ford

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. ~ Harrison Ford

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever. ~ Harrison Ford

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

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people. ~ Harrison Ford

I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it. ~ Harrison Ford

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction. ~ Harrison Ford

I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used. ~ Harrison Ford

You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there. ~ 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

Tarantulas have also received a lot of
bad press in the movies. Many movies
and television programs starring such
noted actors as Sean Connery, The
Three Stooges, Harrison Ford, and
William Shatner, have featured tarantulas
as dangerous to humans or menaces to
civilization. The Tarantula That Ate Tokyo
is a long-standing joke among horrormovie buffs. The fact is that these
movies play with the ignorance and fears
passed on for generations by unenlightened people. Nobody would pay to see
the movie The Beagle That Ate Boston
since everybody knows what a beagle
really is. Few know tarantulas as well. ~ Stanley A Schultz

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. ~ Harrison Ford

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow. ~ Harrison Ford

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters. ~ Harrison Ford

I could take Sean Connery in a fight ... I could definitely take him. ~ Harrison Ford

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me. ~ Harrison Ford

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii. ~ Dwayne Johnson

Arabs are dirtier creatures than animals and we Jews are the chosen people, there is no comparison. ~ Harrison Ford

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

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come. ~ Harrison Ford

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports. ~ Harrison Ford

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story. ~ Harrison Ford

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable. ~ Paul Dano

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

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. ~ 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

We ... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way. ~ Nelson Shanks

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

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with. ~ 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

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain? ~ 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

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

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job. ~ Harrison Ford

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster. ~ Harrison Ford

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

I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage. ~ Harrison Ford

You have to have a darkness ... for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success. ~ Harrison Ford

There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before. ~ 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

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