Harrison Ford Quotes

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

“I'd love to do another "Indiana Jones." A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director: what's not to like?”

“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.”

“It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.”

“I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.”

“I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.”

“If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.”

“I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.”

“Parenting is an impossible job at any age.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari.”

“I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counsellor, and I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.”

“Nature doesn't need people; people need nature. Nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.”

“We have to understand in value what the services of nature are, so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.”

“We're all interconnected.”

“I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems.”

“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.”

“Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.”

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

“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 am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.”

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