Top 140 Harrison Ford Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.”

— Harrison Ford

52. “When I first started out, I was a bad actor.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

54. “My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not “icon.””

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

56. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

57. “I’ve always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn’t it be great to be bald in the rain?”

— Harrison Ford

58. “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?”

— Harrison Ford

59. “The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.”

— Harrison Ford

60. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child’s growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.”

— Harrison Ford

61. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

62. “Hell of a thing when a man’s got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.”

— Harrison Ford

63. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

65. “I’m like old shoes, I’ve never been hip.”

— Harrison Ford

66. “I’m addicted to Altoids. I call them ‘acting pills.’”

— Harrison Ford

67. “I accrued anger from people’s low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.”

— Harrison Ford

68. “Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot.”

— Harrison Ford

69. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

70. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

71. “I don’t want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.”

— Harrison Ford

72. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

74. “It’s always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.”

— Harrison Ford

75. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

76. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

77. “People need to see what’s going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.”

— Harrison Ford

78. “I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.”

— Harrison Ford

79. “There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It’s not an age-based character. We can’t bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.”

— Harrison Ford

80. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

81. “To me, success is choice and opportunity.”

— Harrison Ford

82. “Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it’s misinterpreted.”

— Harrison Ford

83. “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

84. “My older kids are fantastic people. It can’t be the result of my influence on them.”

— Harrison Ford

85. “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

86. “What I hate is the loss of anonymity.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

88. “I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don’t overpower the story with the visual element.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

90. “Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they’re 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.”

— Harrison Ford

91. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

92. “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

93. “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

94. “I had never even thought about doing something that I’d never done before or proving anything.”

— Harrison Ford

95. “Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn’t for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.”

— Harrison Ford

96. “For some directors, I’m the actor from hell.”

— Harrison Ford

97. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

98. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

99. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

100. “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.”

— Harrison Ford