Quotes from Harrison Ford

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.

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.

'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.

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

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

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.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

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

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

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

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

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

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.

J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.