Harrison Ford

Actor

162 Quotes

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

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

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?

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.

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.

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 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.

The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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