Harrison Ford Quotes

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

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

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

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

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

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

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

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.

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.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

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

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

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

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

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.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

The Force is within you. Force yourself.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

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

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

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

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

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

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

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.

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

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

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.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

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

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

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.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

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

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

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.