"I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself."

"I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head."

"Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself. If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too."

"I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills'."

"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."

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

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

"There is no child left within me, none whatsoever."

"I used to shake my head, as in "No, I just look like him." But that's not fair. So I said to those little old ladies at Trenton airport, "Yes, I am Harrison Ford". And they still didn't believe it was me."

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

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

"The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie."

"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."

"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."

"As a man, I've always felt Irish. And as an actor, I've always felt Jewish."

"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."

"I just want to make movies, then go away."

"If you become a part of that machinery, someone the machinery thinks it can use and exploit at that particular moment, then there is sure to be a time limit on you, and you are soon going to be unfashionable. Because I have never been fashionable, I can never be unfashionable."

"A lapse in public taste led me to become a leading man and I take advantage of that opportunity. I'm like a fireman. When I go out on call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster. Not some trash fire."

"Really, the things that brought me success were other people's successes, not mine. I've always given credit to them for that."

"You wouldn't believe the amount of villagers who look at me in astonishment when I ask for directions”

“I love the freedom of flight, I love the places you go. I love the people in aviation … I love seeing the world from an airplane. I’m in love with flying.”

"My brain does not relax. I am obsessed by details and have to stop myself slipping into obsessive compulsive disorder. It is part of my behaviour, I am afraid."

On conservation: "This is a war without an evil enemy. We're strategic and pragmatic and we're assessing the problem. We have had some success and our ideas are things that are being suggested and bought into."

"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 was interested in changing my life. I have always had the ability to change and become other people through my acting. I took a good look at myself and decided I wanted something different from the way I was living. That's not such a bad thing, is it? But, because of my past, I think it took a lot of people by surprise. They wondered what was happening to me. I was very much aware of what was happening. I'm living the way I want to live."

 "The notion of retirement is that you have outlived your usefulness and I'm still working. I'm not sitting on the front porch."

"The worst thing about the internet is that anything and everything is up for grabs. How can that be, when I limit my public conversations to about once every couple of years? Any kind of rubbish goes on the internet and it can have a f**king life of its own."

"There are many people that I admire. Real life people that I admire"

"My hold life was changed by the opportunities that came to me trough the sucess of Star Wars"

"It's a little-known fact, but I wanted Han Solo to die at the end of Return of the Jedi. I thought it would give more weight and resonance. But George Lucas wasn't sympathetic. He didn't want me killed by those teddy bear guys."

"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."  (About Indiana Jones IV)

"I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down."

"I don't use any particular method. I'm from the lets-pretend school of acting."

"Once a film is finished, it's over for me. I'm on to something else."

"The studio guy told me, "Kid, you have no future in this business." I said, "Why?" He said, "When Tony Curtis first walked onscreen carrying a bag of groceries -- a bag of groceries! -- you took one look at him and said, 'THAT'S a movie star!'" I said, "Weren't you supposed to say, 'That's a grocery delivery boy?'" (After his first screen test)

"It could have been so much more than a cult movie." (Talking about Blade Runner)

"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."

"Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction."

 "Well, I don't do violent films. I would not be unhappy to see a mood change in what Hollywood turns out and what the public chooses to see. I'd like scripts with a more positive message. Storylines that give people something to hope for in place of the current diet of repetitive violence and retribution. I think we all need to focus on stories that raise the barrier to a higher level of emotion."

"I don't play heroes; I play men with dilemmas."

"I am very gratified that there has been a consistent interest in this character (Han Solo) and in these films over a pretty long period of time. We're talking nearly 30 years now."

"I think George (Lucas) likes people. I think George is a kind, warm hearted person, but he can be a little impatient with the nature of acting, the need to work till you find something. He's like 'It's right there, it's right there, I wrote it, it's there, do it.' But you can't just do it (.from Star Wars: Empire of Dreams")

" I could take Sean Connery in a fight..."

"It works for him (Steven Spielberg) because there's a child-like glee in it that's part of the whole process. It's not just dumb, it's dumb and inspired and gleeful..."

"I just thought, 'Well, why not?' I know it is a first but I have always wanted to work with Michelle (Pfeiffer). She is such a professional and I love all her work. People don't expect it of me but that is up to them. I just couldn't resist the opportunity."

"He (Brad Pitt) had a different movie in mind. I have enormous respect for him as an actor and as a man - he's a dear, gentle soul and I really like him. It was rougher on him than it was on me, because I was fighting for what I wanted to do and he was just trying to hold on to what he had, this object that was slipping out of his hands. I think the lesson he learned is, you can never let the motherf***ers in the media know what you're really thinking. They'll kill you for it. And they did."

"She (Virginia Madsen) was an absolute delight - professional, very talented and simply, very sweet. She also took what could have been a fairly one-dimensional damsel in distress role and added so many layers to it - there isn't many who could do that. I'd work with her again in a heartbeat. I'm actually hoping she'll come over for Indiana Jones. We've talked about it."

“Karen (Allen) has this sort of girlish streak to her, even as a mature woman. And yet it’s not a coy thing. It’s not a weak thing. She has a sense of adventure, (...) she was the one person who made me feel nostalgic about it all"

"Cate Blanchett is a devil, she is an incredibly strong and powerful villain, and that's a great opportunity for an actress to play that kind of role, I think she relished it."  

"I really enjoyed working with Cate. She is wonderfully inventive.  "She's a terrific actress. The character is so strong and indelible. It just leaps right off the page. She's great."

"Acting is basically like carpentry, if you know your craft, you figure out the logic of a particular job and submit yourself to it. It all comes down to detail." (from Earl Blackwell's "Entertainment Celebrity Register", 1991)

O: Do you accept films that don't have a lot of action in them? I mean, when they come, do you look for as much action as you can find?
HF: Did you ever see me beat Sabrina?
(Oprah, TV interview, 1997)

BW: Do you believe in the Force?
HF: When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you", I always said..."The Force is within you, force yourself " (Barbara Walters, TV interview 1997)

COB: (about Indiana Jones IV) Is an older and wiser Indiana Jones?
HF: certainly older (Late Night with Conan O' Brien, 2003)

JL: Do you consider yourself as a sex symbol?
HF: More like a sex kitten (Tonight with Jay Leno, 1995)

"When I came up here thirty years ago I was walking on Hollywood Blvd. and there is a star with the name 'Harrison Ford' on it... I though... that's really generous... that's so sweet! " (Jay Leno Interview, 2003)

Celebrity Secrets (Late Night with Conan O'Brien 2003)

"It's not easy being a celebrity. Once this little kid, cute little kid asked me for an autograph... and I gave it to him. He said, 'Thanks Mr. Hanks!' I took it away from him, tore it up, and told him Tom Hanks was dead."

"In the movie Witness, I played a policeman who went undercover and pretended to be Amish. I could never be Amis... for one thing they're not allowed to touch themselves down there."

"One day I called George Lucas up at three o'clock in the morning and pretended to be Mark Hamill. He said, 'Harrison?' I said 'No, it's me, Mark Hamill!.' He said, 'Harrison, I know it's you.' I said, 'Well then you know wrong because it's Mark Hamill!' He sighed and said, 'ok Mark, what do you want?' ...
I really got him."

"In 1982 I played a character in Blade Runner that hunts down and kills bloodthirsty humanoid life forms known as replicants. I want to say we were ahead of our time: it was four years before anybody had ever heard of Jerry Springer."

"People ask me if I'm as nice as I am in the movies. I say 'hey, what if life is a movie?' While they're thinking about that I yell 'cut' and then I run away."

"Onscreen R2D2 was so likable. Offscreen, total ass***"

"A movie star can make one stupid little mistake and his whole career is over. Like doing a lame comedy bit on some stupid TV show. Oh my God- what have I done?"