Quotes by Harrison Ford

“Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.”

“The force is within you force yourself. ”

“The force is within you, force yourself.”

“Parenting is an impossible job at any age.”

“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.”

“Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.”

“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”

“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 ...”

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”

“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 experi...”

“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.”

“I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.”

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

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

“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.”

“Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more...”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“All I would tell people is to hold on to 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 o...”

“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.”