Quotes By Harrison Ford

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.

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.

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

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.

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.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

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.

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

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

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

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.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

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