Top 140 Harrison Ford Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

102. “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

103. “Starring in a science fiction film doesn’t mean you have to act science fiction.”

— Harrison Ford

104. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

105. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

106. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

108. “If I were a serious person, I’d probably have a real job.”

— Harrison Ford

109. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

110. “When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.”

— Harrison Ford

111. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

112. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

113. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

114. “Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.”

— Harrison Ford

115. “Everything I do, I’m sort of half in, half out.”

— Harrison Ford

116. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

117. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

118. “I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven’t been the most adored.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

120. “I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.”

— Harrison Ford

121. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

122. “I didn’t play much ball. I wasn’t much of a ball fan.”

— Harrison Ford

123. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

124. “My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I’ve been doing.”

— Harrison Ford

125. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

126. “The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.”

— Harrison Ford

127. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

128. “All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

130. “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

131. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

132. “If you’re asking me to acknowledge that I’ve gotten older, I can do that.”

— Harrison Ford

133. “Hollywood’s got its own particular environment.”

— Harrison Ford

134. “Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn’t pay very well.”

— Harrison Ford

135. “I’ve always been somewhere down from the top, so I’ve never had to suffer being knocked off the top.”

— Harrison Ford

136. “I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.”

— Harrison Ford

137. “You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.”

— Harrison Ford

138. “I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else’s head.”

— Harrison Ford

139. “I am my age. I’m not making any effort to change it.”

— Harrison Ford

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

— Harrison Ford

141. “I rarely play a real person, because I don’t think I’m a good imitator.”

— Harrison Ford

142. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

143. “I’ve never wanted to be the boss.”

— Harrison Ford

144. “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

145. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

146. “There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.”

— Harrison Ford

147. “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.”

— Harrison Ford

148. “An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.”

— Harrison Ford