What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience.… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
When we were making it [Star Wars], none of the effects were in. So the first time, I thought it was, you know, that… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image