I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.
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.
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don’t ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
Hollywood’s got its own particular environment.
Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along – or don’t.
Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that’s got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don’t happen there.
What I hate is the loss of anonymity.
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 love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
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.
Everything I do, I’m sort of half in, half out.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
I don’t do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
Hell of a thing when a man’s got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.
Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else’s head.
Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn’t for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.