Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing charismatic rogues in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film franchises. Ford was born in Chicago and was raised in the city’s suburbs.
1: “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.”
2: “We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”
3: “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.”
4: “I accrued anger from people’s low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.”
5: “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.”
6: “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.”
7: “I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.”
8: “I’m not a poster boy for Conservation International. I’m a working member of the board.”
9: “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.”
10: “I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I’ve never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I’d like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I’ve never flown to Alaska.”
11: “Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.”
12: “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?”
13: “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.”
14: “To me, success is choice and opportunity.”
15: “Parenting is an impossible job at any age.”
16: “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?”
17: “I rarely play a real person, because I don’t think I’m a good imitator.”
18: “If I were a serious person, I’d probably have a real job.”
19: “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.”
20: “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.”