All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
Flying is something I always wanted to do, and at a certain point I bought a plane for myself and I became more interested and involved in it.
Historically, LA's always gone for this very professional image.
Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
I did my own running, jumping and falling down.
I didn't make a living for 15 years.
I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
I feel fit to continue and bring the same physical action.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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.
I love flying. It's very important to me.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
I may have gotten married right out of college, but I didn't really have drive. Drive came out of my reaction to rejection.
I spent a little time trying to nail down the style of LA homicide detectives. I've done so much research over the years about cops that I've got the general feel for that.
I thought I was character actor, because I hadn't figured out how to do it. I learned by experience. The theories of acting that I was presented with when I was young were not useful to me.
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.
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
I wanted to work with different people over periods of time. I wanted to be in different places geographically. I didn't really calculate how difficult that was to achieve.
I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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.
I went out and bought some ties recently and found that they're all, like, $130 apiece. It's ridiculous.
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
I'm aware of trying to characterize things physically.
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
I've been doing this for a while. It doesn't kill me.
I've been in situations where I've gotten a little nervous, or when I haven't flown for a while, before I'm driving to the airport, I get a little twinge of anticipation.
I've got work that I like, my kids are in good shape, and I've got a happy relationship. I feel pretty happy.
I've never wanted to be the boss.
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
It enrages people in the business when I say I see it as a craft or a skill. But I do.
It has a lot to do with being involved with people who are talented, and luck has a lot to do with it. A certain kind of ambition has something to do with it.
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.
It was always about getting the right script, and now we have it.
It's like having a limp. You live with it.
It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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.
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.
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
People's interest and expectation in those private areas are not something you think about when you're living your life.
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
The confidence I have is not based on my sexual appeal. I've never related to that kind of thing at all.
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
The only thing I could think of to be was an actor.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
You do whatever is necessary to make it happen.
You grade whatever you're doing to the scale of the shot. But I'm just sort of technically oriented as an actor.
You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
Harrison has been a board member of the organization called ‘Conservation International’ for 15 years. (January 2007)
Calista Flockhart finished a day’s work on the set of Brothers And Sisters and headed to her car - only to find security guards banging on the windows. They told her “some old guy” had gotten inside her car and fell asleep. Soon, the “old guy” sat up and was identified as Harrison Ford.
Harrison's first ever film was entitled Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round.
Harrison's highest grossing film of all time Star Wars: A New Hope cost just 13 million US dollars to make giving it a net profit of 762 million US dollars.
Harrison's least successful film of in the box office's worldwide was Journey to Shiloh which earned just approx. 810,000 US dollars worldwide. Although, the main factor for this was that the film was released early on Harrison's career.
In 2006, Harrison was awarded the International Conservation Caucus Foundation Good Steward Award in Washington D.C. The Award was given in recognition of his conservation ethic and long standing dedication to global environmental issues.
In 2006, Harrison was awarded the Independent by Nature Award at the Aspen Film Festival.
In the romantic scenes in the Star Wars trilogy, Harrison's co-star Carrie Fisher had to stand on a box to reach him for their kisses in the movies.
Harrison turned down the role of Mike Stivic on the hit TV show All in the Family.
Harrison collected Roman Polanski's Oscars for The Pianist and presented it to him in Paris.
In 1993, the arachnologist Norman Platnick named a new species of spider Calponia harrisonfordi, and in 2002, the entomologist Edward O. Wilson named a new ant species Pheidole harrisonfordi in recognition of Harrison's work as Vice Chairman of Conservation International.
As of 2006, Harrison is dating Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart.
Harrison has received just one Oscar nomination during his career as Best Actor for the 1985 film Witness.
Harrison's reported salary for K-19 was 25 million US dollars.
Harrison's films in total have earned approximately 6 billion US dollars in box offices worldwide.
Harrison nearly worked with director George Lucas again on Apocalypse Now when Lucas was in line to direct the picture. During Harrison's career he has worked with Lucas on seven films, Star Wars episodes 4-6, All three Indiana Jones films and American Graffiti. He worked with Lucas for an eighth time on the 4th Indiana Jones film.
Harrison played Alexei Vostrikov in the 2002 film K-19: The Widowmaker. His performance in the film lead to media speculation tipping him for an Oscar nomination.
When Harrison first started work on Star Wars he thought it was a 'kiddies' movie.
Harrison turned down the role of Bob Barnes in the 2005 film "Syriana".
Harrison made about 22,000,000 for doing the 1997 film "Air Force One".
In 2001 Harrison was listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the richest male actor.
Harrison was chosen as People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1998.
Harrison turned down turned down the role of Judge Wakefield in the 2000 film "Traffic".
Harrison was married to Mary Marquardt from 1964 until they were divorced in 1979. Harrison also was married to Melissa Mathison from 1983 until divorced in 2004.
Harrison has refused to help his children to become Hollywood stars. Harrison: ...they suffer from the belief that they have been helped along because a member of the family was successful. I can't work that way.
While in college Harrison appeared as Mac the Knife in the musical play, The Threepenny Opera.
Harrison considers The Mosquito Coast (1986) to be the favorite of all his movies.
Harrison is a private pilot, of a single engine fixed wing and a helicopter. He also owns a Bonanza, Gulfstream IV, DeHavland Beaver, and a Bell 407 helicopter. He destroyed his first 407 during a simulated "engine-out" practice. He also regularly flies himself between New York City and Wyoming homes.
Harrison was a master carpenter before becoming a movie star, a craft he still continues to do as a hobby.
Harrison is the only actor to appear in eight of George Lucas' movies. The films were: American Graffiti, Star Wars 4-6, Raiders of the Ark, Temple of Doom, The Last Carusade, and the fourth future installment in the Indiana Jones franchise.
Harrison's nickname is "Harry."
Harrison is 6' 1" (1.85 m) tall.
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