Harrison Ford quotes

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
-- Harrison Ford

#Kids #Your Side #Weapons

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.
-- Harrison Ford

#Jobs #Character #Eye

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

#Giving Up #Moving Forward #People

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

#Ambition #People #Personality

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

#Inspirational #Change #Second Chance

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

#Thinking #People #Important

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.
-- Harrison Ford

#Character #Goal #Actors

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

#Stories #Actors #Talent

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.
-- Harrison Ford

#Men #Excited #Shows

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.
-- Harrison Ford

#Mean #Icons #Doe

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

#Thoughtful #Mind #Pockets

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.
-- Harrison Ford

#Growing Up #Responsibility #Thinking

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
-- Harrison Ford

#Strength #Vitality #Earth

I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.
-- Harrison Ford

#Successful #Giving #Looks

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

#Inspirational #Ambition #People

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

#Reading #Character #Thinking

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
-- Harrison Ford

#Real #Tired #May

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

#Thinking #Stories #Elements

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.
-- Harrison Ford

#Success #People #Important

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.
-- Harrison Ford

#Hard Work #Trying #Figures

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
-- Harrison Ford

#Acting #Pills

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
-- Harrison Ford

#Actors #Gave Up

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
-- Harrison Ford

#Success #Failure #Thinking

[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

#Patience #Time #People

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
-- Harrison Ford

#Cutting #Woods #Faster

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
-- Harrison Ford

#Years #Very Good #Carpentry

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
-- Harrison Ford

#Tunnels #Light #Rejection

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

#Fashion #Thinking #Shoes

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

#Strength #Agriculture #Medicine

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.
-- Harrison Ford

#Jobs #Live Life #Interesting

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

#Thinking #Years #People

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
-- Harrison Ford

#Jobs #Real #Serious

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
-- Harrison Ford

#Writing #Film #Inevitable

Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
-- Harrison Ford

#Mean #Fiction #Film

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.
-- Harrison Ford

#Boyfriend #Dad #Father

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

#Birthday #Fun #Book

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

#Army #Games #Enemy

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

#Thinking #Might #Sometimes

The Force is within you. Force yourself.
-- Harrison Ford

#Force