--- title: "10 Important Quotes By Harrison Ford" description: "10 Important quotes by Harrison Ford. Plus more from Harrison Ford and more Important sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/harrison-ford-1782_ifs_money-is-really-only-important-if-you-do_2161721.jpg" --- > [Money is really only important if you don't have any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/money-is-really-only-important-if-you-don-t-have-any/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/harrison-ford-1782_ifs_money-is-really-only-important-if-you-do_2161721.jpg) > [My work has always been important to me. The reason I continue to do it is because it's so much fun for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/my-work-has-always-been-important-to-me-the-reason-i-continue-to-do/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/685/harrison-ford-1782_fun_my-work-has-always-been-important-to-me_2009751.jpg) > [It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/it-s-important-not-to-base-your-ambition-on-anybody-else-s-history/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95c/harrison-ford-1782_ambition_it-s-important-not-to-base-your-ambition_1810200.jpg) > ['May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/may-the-force-be-with-you-is-charming-but-it-s-not-important-what-s/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f3/harrison-ford-1782_charming_may-the-force-be-with-you-is-charming-bu_1436098.jpg) > [I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-haven-t-purposefully-set-out-to-play-heroes-i-m-interested-in/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/harrison-ford-1782_acting_i-haven-t-purposefully-set-out-to-play-h_1370741.jpg) > [What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/what-s-important-is-to-be-able-to-see-yourself-i-think-as-having/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/harrison-ford-1782_able_what-s-important-is-to-be-able-to-see-yo_3083947.jpg) > [What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/what-i-think-is-important-for-a-young-person-is-to-figure-out-how-to/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b4/harrison-ford-1782_can-do_what-i-think-is-important-for-a-young-pe_557219.jpg) > [I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-knew-that-there-was-an-aspect-to-this-story-that-was-beyond-the/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cd/harrison-ford-1782_america_i-knew-that-there-was-an-aspect-to-this_3024688.jpg) > [I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-have-the-ordinary-experience-of-having-the-blender-bottom-come-off/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fa/harrison-ford-1782_able_i-have-the-ordinary-experience-of-having_2319309.jpg) > [ The capacity to create \[visual\] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/the-capacity-to-create-visual-effects-in-the-computer-has-made-the/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/harrison-ford-1782_busy_the-capacity-to-create-visual-effects-in_2444378.jpg) ## Other authors on Important ## More by Harrison Ford > [Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/failures-are-inevitable-unfortunately-in-film-they-live-for-ever-and/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/the-kindest-word-to-describe-my-performance-in-school-was-sloth/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [ When we were making it \[Star Wars\], none of the effects were in. So the first time, I thought it was, you know, that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/when-we-were-making-it-star-wars-none-of-the-effects-were-in-so-the/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/a-bad-guy-in-a-movie-has-a-lot-of-latitude-for-acting-he-can-walk-up/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-wanted-to-live-the-life-a-different-life-i-didn-t-want-to-go-to-the/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/there-are-a-lot-of-different-paths-through-the-jungle-but-the/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/my-older-kids-are-fantastic-people-it-can-t-be-the-result-of-my/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-think-i-did-have-a-reputation-for-being-grumpy-i-don-t-think-i-m/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [ That \[film What's My Line\] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/that-film-what-s-my-line-was-very-useful-to-me-because-it-had-branch/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/because-the-character-is-a-fiction-he-s-a-composite-of-other/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/henry-well-i-m-sorry-about-your-head-though-but-i-thought-you-were/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [ It's the primordial characters \[of the Star Wars\]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/it-s-the-primordial-characters-of-the-star-wars-it-s-the-beautiful/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-love-the-comic-opportunities-that-come-up-in-the-context-of-a/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-don-t-think-i-have-something-that-s-pronounceable-as-a-philosophy/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) > [I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/i-prefer-to-be-part-of-a-positive-statement-i-m-not-interested-in-the/) [Harrison Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-ford/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/important/harrison-ford/#itemlist", "name": "10 Important Quotes By Harrison Ford", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Money is really only important if you don't have any.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Harrison Ford" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-ford/money-is-really-only-important-if-you-don-t-have-any/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/harrison-ford-1782_ifs_money-is-really-only-important-if-you-do_2161721.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/harrison-ford-1782_ifs_money-is-really-only-important-if-you-do_2161721.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0da/harrison-ford-1782_ifs_money-is-really-only-important-if-you-do_2161721.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Money is really only important if you don't have any.” — Harrison Ford", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My work has always been important to me. 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