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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

Money is really only important if you don't have any.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

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 think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight ... I could definitely take him.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

The force is within you, force yourself.

I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff.

Arabs are dirtier creatures than animals and we Jews are the chosen people, there is no comparison.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

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.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

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.

I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

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

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

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

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.

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

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

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.

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.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

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.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

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

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along
or don't.

It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

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

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

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

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.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

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

I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

Whoever decided that Indiana Jones should wear a felt hat and a leather jacket in the jungles should have been shot.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

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.

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

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.