Harrison Ford Quotes

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.

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

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

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.

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

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

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

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

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 job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

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

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

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

Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

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.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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.

Money is really only important if you don't have any.

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 like old shoes, I've never been hip.

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

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

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

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

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.