Harrison Ford Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

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

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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?'

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