Harrison Ford Quotes
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor. Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones. Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well. Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out. Hollywood's got its own particular environment. I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of. I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity. I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him. I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. 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. I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. 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. 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. I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored. I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit. I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.' I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top. I've never wanted to be the boss.
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