1. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. 2. 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.
4. Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
5. 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?"
7. 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.
9. You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
10. Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
11. Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
13. I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
14. Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
15. I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
17. I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
18. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
20. I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
22. 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.
24. 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.
26. I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
28. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
30. I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them "acting pills."
31. I've never wanted to be the boss.
32. If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
34. 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.
36. 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.
38. My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
39. 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. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
41. Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
42. Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
43. Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
45. The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
46. The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
47. 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.
48. There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
50. To me, success is choice and opportunity.
51. What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
52. When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
54. What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
56. I don't use any particular method. I'm from the lets-pretend school of acting.
57. I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.
58. Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
60. (asked if he believes in "the Force":) I think the Force is in you. Force yourself.
61. (on Star Wars) I understood the impact of those movies because I had young children who watched them religiously. I saw the Star Wars films so often in my house that I ended up knowing all of the other actors lines.
63. (On playing Indiana Jones again) No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.
64. (From an interview explaining that Indiana Jones was not the same character as Han Solo) Different clothes, different character. That's how I feel about it.
67. (Asked if he would ever play Indiana Jones again) In a New York minute.
68. I used to shake my head, as in "No, I just look like him." But that's not fair. So I said to those little old ladies at Trenton airport: "Yes, I am Harrison Ford". And they still didn't believe it was me.
70. I am a kinder, gentler Harrison Ford than I once was.
71. (Talking about George Lucas) I think George likes people. I think George is a kind, warm hearted person, but he can be a little impatient with the nature of acting, the need to work till you find something. He's like: "It's right there, it's right there, I wrote it, it's there, just do it." But you can't just do it that easily.
74. (on the early days of his career) I started by chasing a Folger's commercial. But I just somehow couldn't manage to say: "Honey, that's a great cup of coffee."
75. Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?
76. 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 was interested in changing my life. I have always had the ability to change and become other people through my acting. I took a good look at myself and decided I wanted something different from the way I was living. That's not such a bad thing, is it? But, because of my past, I think it took a lot of people by surprise. They wondered what was happening to me. I was very much aware of what was happening. I'm living the way I want to live.77. (When asked: If heaven exists, what would you want God to say to you at the pearly gates) You're a lot better looking in person.
80. (Asked if he would ever play Han Solo again) No, because I have outgrown that character.
81. I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish an an actor.
82. (To cinema owners in Las Vegas) I'll make you a deal. I'll try to keep making films that put people in your theatre seats and you try to keep their shoes from sticking to the floor.
84. 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.
86. (After his first screen test) The studio guy told me: "Kid, you have no future in this business." I said: "Why?" He said: "When Tony Curtis first walked onscreen carrying a bag of groceries - a bag of groceries! - you took one look at him and said: "THAT'S a movie star!" I said: "Weren't you supposed to say: "That's a grocery delivery boy?"
88. (Talking about Blade Runner 1982): It could have been so much more than a cult movie.
89. There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness. (from People magazine June 23, 2003 issue)
90. (on what made him choose acting as a profession) Failure in all other fields.
92. Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
93. I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.
94. I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.
96. (Talking about the appeal of Indiana Jones) Indiana Jones is always getting in way over his head and just barely getting out by the skin of his teeth.
98. I'm very troubled by the proliferation of arms, at the fact so many people in the United States carry guns. It obviously contributes greatly to the crime problems we have. I'm sure gun laws should be strengthened in the United States. I just don't know the correct mechanism.
100. Identification solely with Star Wars could have been the beginning and the end, with no middle, to my career.
101. 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.
104. Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
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