Top 100 Harrison Ford Quotes
#1. I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.
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#2. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
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#3. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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#4. 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?
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#5. In relationships with a directors, I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.
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#9. It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.
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#10. 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.
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#11. You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.
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#12. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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#13. I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.
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#14. I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.
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#15. You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.
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#16. It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
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#18. I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.
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#19. Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
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#20. 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.
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#21. I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
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#24. You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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#26. An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
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#27. My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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#28. I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.
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#29. I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
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#30. I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.
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#31. 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?'
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#33. 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.
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#35. I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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#36. 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.
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#37. The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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#38. 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.
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#39. I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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#40. Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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#41. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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#42. I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
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#43. There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.
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#44. Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.
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#45. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.
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#49. I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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#50. I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
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#53. Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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#54. I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
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#55. 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.
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#56. J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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#57. The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
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#58. I could take Sean Connery in a fight ... I could definitely take him.
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#59. If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
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#60. My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I think the best movies are made not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin, or the politics that you've had, or the place that you come from.
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#64. I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.
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#68. I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.
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#71. I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.
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#72. The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
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#73. I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.
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#74. Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
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#75. I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
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#81. I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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#83. There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but ... the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can.
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#85. What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.
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#86. I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.
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#87. If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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#88. Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
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#89. When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.
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#90. I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.
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#91. When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity.
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#92. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
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#93. I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey look-a-like than a Harrison Ford look-a-like. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in the movies.
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#94. Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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#95. It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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#96. All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
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#97. I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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#98. 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 it's just been a great experience for me, 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.
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#99. The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
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#100. My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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