Quotes by Harrison Ford

“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 ...”

“The force is within you force yourself.”

“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 a...”

“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.”

“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 in on...”

“Speaking about his Irish/Jewish/Russian ancestors, Harrison Ford said that he is Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.”

“The simplest answer is probably the most truthful: After two years of sitting on my ass during COVID, and waiting quite a few years for Indiana Jones to start, I had not done as much work as I want...”

“I just don't understand the need to name something the best or more better than something else. Saying one thing is better than another, one performance is better than another performance — there c...”

“I wouldn't be doing this interview if I didn't like you.”

“I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.”

“I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, May the Force be with you, I always said, Force yourself. ... I'll say again then, The Force...”

“Flying is the tension between freedom and responsibility. The obligation on every flight is to ensure the safety of the people aboard. It's serious. And I continually have to meet the standards. An...”

“It is a bit of a shock to discover that there are things that a writer can bring to a script that you recognize as a shadow of your own experience. You don’t necessarily actively draw on some speci...”

“I can tell you this: If I’d been less successful, I’d probably be a better parent.”

“Which I still get shit about from my wife, like I don’t take mental health seriously. I do take mental health seriously. I was trying to say, as I explained to her: It’s that I accommodate all of t...”

“[Donald Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status qu...”

“[The President dislikes wind turbines because] he has just not seen a gold one.”

“[On climate change] I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years. [...] Everything we've said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms pe...”

“He's losing ground because everything he says is a lie [...] I'm confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies, to concent...”

“We are teetering on the edge. [...] Indigenous people are the stewards of much of the remaining standing forests and contain the hope that these precious places can be preserved. The science has pr...”