Quotes By Harrison Ford

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

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 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.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

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

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

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

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?'

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

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.

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.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

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.

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.

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 enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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.

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

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.