Top 100 Quotes About Harrison Ford
#1. Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
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#2. I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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.
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#7. I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
Carl Weathers
#8. I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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#9. 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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#10. Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.
Margaret Stohl
#11. The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.
Donald Faison
#12. 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.
Harrison Ford
#13. What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I can identify that from reading the script, then I've got a clear idea of whether or not I think the character is worth playing.
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#14. Not alone, echoed in my mind. Go. I'll bring you back. (Ford to Rachel)
Kim Harrison
#15. Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
Dirk Benedict
#16. 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.
Harrison Ford
#17. 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 have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
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#18. Indiana Jones is old school; we've moved on from Indy. Sorry, Harrison Ford.
Sarah Parcak
#19. I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.
Harrison Ford
#20. I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their relationships; it came out of the fact that we were basically types.
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#21. 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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#22. If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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#23. My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for me. I love my work and so that's what keeps me in the game.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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#30. 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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#31. 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.
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#32. And lastly, I want to thank Harrison Ford. Because I can. And let's face it, he shaped as much of my world and imagination as anyone else I can think of. I owe him a hell of a lot.
Rhys Ford
#33. The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
Harrison Ford
#34. Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it ... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.
Michael Lewis
#35. I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.
Harrison Ford
#36. If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs.
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#37. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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#38. 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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#39. I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something to offer them you become a personality rather than an actor - much more short-lived. I only work once a year. And that's enough.
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#40. For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - he's a cowboy from Montana, the most unassuming man you'll ever work with, fabulous guy, and I loved it.
Ray Winstone
#41. 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.
Harrison Ford
#42. I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.
Asa Butterfield
#43. 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.
Harrison Ford
#44. You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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#45. You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.
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#46. It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
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#47. I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.
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#48. Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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#50. I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.
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#51. Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
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#52. When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.
Joe Manganiello
#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
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#57. You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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#59. An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
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#60. It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.
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#61. The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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#62. My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.
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#63. 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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#64. Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well.
Nonso Anozie
#65. Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.
Thomas Jane
#66. [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
Harrison Ford
#67. Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way.
Jacqueline Obradors
#68. 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.
Harrison Ford
#70. I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.
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#71. 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.
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#72. I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.
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#73. I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
Oded Fehr
#74. I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way.
Harrison Ford
#75. 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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#76. The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
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#77. 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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#79. Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
Lucy Liu
#80. To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great.
Paul Dano
#81. I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
Harrison Ford
#82. '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.
Harrison Ford
#83. My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."
Harrison Ford
#84. 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.
Harrison Ford
#85. People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.
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#86. Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
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#88. 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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#89. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.
Frederick Lenz
#90. I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.
Harrison Ford
#91. 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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#92. The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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#93. I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.
Harrison Ford
#94. I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him.
Minnie Driver
#96. 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.
Harrison Ford
#97. I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. Money is really only important if you don't have any.
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