Quotes By Harrison Ford

I've never wanted to be the boss.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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

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.

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.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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