325 Quotes by 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.

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.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it’s misinterpreted.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Money is really only important if you don’t have any.