Harrison Ford Quotes

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“To me, success is choice and opportunity.”

“I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.”

“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 think of myself as an assistant storyteller.”

“My approach to acting is the "let's pretend" school of acting.”

“Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.”

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

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

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

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

“I've never wanted to be the boss.”

“What's important is to be able to see yourself 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.”

“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.”

“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?"

“The original "Star Wars" that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.”

“I think "Indiana Jones" was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.”