A biography for Harrison Fordhasn’t been written yet.
“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 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.”
“I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.”
“To me, success is choice and opportunity.”
“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”
“Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.”
“Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.”
“The force is within you force yourself.”
“I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.”
“If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.”
“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.”
“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 took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.”
“The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.”
“Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.”
“It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.”
“I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.”
“I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.”
“I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.”
“Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.”