110+ Harrison Ford Quotes On Star Wars, Charismatic And Iconic

Harrison Ford is an American actor, best known for his roles as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones franchise, and Rick Deckard in Blade Runner. He has also starred in a number of other successful films, such as The Fugitive, Air Force One, and The Expendables 3. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards and has won one Golden Globe Award. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Harrison Ford on star wars, charismatic, iconic.

Top 10 Harrison Ford Quotes

1. Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
2. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
3. Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
4. Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
5. Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
6. 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.
7. Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.
8. If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
9. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
10. The Force is within you. Force yourself.

Harrison Ford Image Quotes

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted. — Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford Short Quotes

• Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
• Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
• I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.
• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
• You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.
• I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
• It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.
• I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.
• If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
• What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

Harrison Ford Quotes About Star Wars

It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale. — Harrison Ford

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

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

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

Harrison Ford Quotes About People

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 on the bus with you. — Harrison Ford

If people recognize me when I'm out in public, I'm very nice to them. I'm very nice to people even when they don't recognize me. I don't even mind if people come up to me while I'm eating dinner, but if they recognize me while I'm having sex, I refuse to sign autographs. — Harrison Ford

All I would tell people is to hold onto 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 on your own terms. — Harrison Ford

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie. — Harrison Ford

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

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

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

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for. — Harrison Ford

What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better. — Harrison Ford

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories. — Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford Quotes About Movies

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars. — Harrison Ford

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you. — Harrison Ford

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

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

I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie. — Harrison Ford

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through. — Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford Quotes About Play

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

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

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

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

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan. — Harrison Ford

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

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

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator. — Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford Quotes About Kind

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. — Harrison Ford

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

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life. — Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford Famous Quotes And Sayings

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted. — Harrison Ford

Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid. — Harrison Ford

I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?' — Harrison Ford

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting. — Harrison Ford

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory. — Harrison Ford

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot. — Harrison Ford

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion. — Harrison Ford

I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine. — Harrison Ford

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it — Harrison Ford

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

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

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

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

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job. — Harrison Ford

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

A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part. — Harrison Ford

It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time. — Harrison Ford

[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

I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used. — Harrison Ford

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

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely. — Harrison Ford

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

The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world. — Harrison Ford

I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention to the film that I've made. I care a lot about the movies that I make. I want them to reach an audience, and I want them to be successful. I promote nearly everything that I do, unless I've got some bad taste in my mouth. — Harrison Ford

When I first started out, I was a bad actor. — Harrison Ford

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

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process. — Harrison Ford

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him. — Harrison Ford

I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, (and) hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is [42]. — Harrison Ford

I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story. — Harrison Ford

When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow. — Harrison Ford

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him. — Harrison Ford

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing. — Harrison Ford

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

As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the problem of identification. In The Conversation I played a character who was gay, so nobody recognised me from American Graffiti. When I did Apocalypse Now, after Star Wars, I played an intelligence officer of the American army. George Lucas saw the footage I had done and didn't recognise me until halfway through the scene. — Harrison Ford

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 rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen. — Harrison Ford

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up. — Harrison Ford

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 is within you. Force yourself." — Harrison Ford

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports. — Harrison Ford

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

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

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky. On being an actor — Harrison Ford

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

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

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success. — Harrison Ford

[After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public. — Harrison Ford

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world. — Harrison Ford

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport. — Harrison Ford

I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip. — Harrison Ford

I was desperately unhappy with it [Blade Runner]. I was compelled by contract to record five or six different versions of the narration, each of which was found wanting on a storytelling basis. The final version was something that I was completely unhappy with. The movie obviously has a very strong following, but it could have been more than a cult picture. — Harrison Ford

I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it. — Harrison Ford

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television. — Harrison Ford

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along. — Harrison Ford

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

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

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do. — Harrison Ford

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster. — Harrison Ford

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it. — Harrison Ford

It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not. — Harrison Ford

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything. — Harrison Ford

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

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

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity. — Harrison Ford

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with. — Harrison Ford

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon." — Harrison Ford

We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility. — Harrison Ford

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element. — Harrison Ford

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

I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way. — Harrison Ford

You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there. — Harrison Ford

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky. — Harrison Ford

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person. — Harrison Ford

Life Lessons by Harrison Ford

1. Life is unpredictable and can take unexpected turns, so it is important to stay flexible and open to new opportunities. Harrison Ford's career is a great example of this, as he was a carpenter before becoming an actor.
2. Hard work and perseverance are essential for success. Harrison Ford worked hard to make it in Hollywood, and his determination is an inspiration.
3. It is important to take risks and be brave. Harrison Ford has taken many risks throughout his career, and his willingness to take chances has paid off.