325 Quotes by 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.

It’s always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

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.

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.

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.

Hell of a thing when a man’s got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

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.

I think the best movies are made not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it’s the color of your skin, or the politics that you’ve had, or the place that you come from.