Quotes By Harrison Ford

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

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 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.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

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.

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.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

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

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

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

I've never wanted to be the boss.

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

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.