Quotes By Harrison Ford

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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've never wanted to be the boss.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?'

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.