Happy Birthday 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?'

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

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.

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

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

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.

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

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life. Harrison Ford Life, Beginning, Working I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.

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.

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

I've never wanted to be the boss. 

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

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

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene. 

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

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

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

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

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.

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.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him. 

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

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

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

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life. 

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

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

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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.

We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

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

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

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

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

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

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.

Political The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

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.

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

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.