Quotes By Harrison Ford

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

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