Harrison Ford
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.Collection: Parenting
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.Collection: Famous
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Relationship
'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.Collection: Respect
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.Collection: War
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.Collection: Anger
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.Collection: Dad
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.Collection: Age
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.Collection: Chance
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.
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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?'
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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.
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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.
I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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.
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 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've never flown to Alaska.
I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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.
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 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.
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.
It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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.
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.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.