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Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
Luck certainly has a lot to do with any kind of success. But on the other hand, this is a business in which relationships are very important. And also there is oft times a degree of complexity to those relationships. She was always able to represent my point of a view in a way that made it palatable to whoever she was dealing with.
Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon.
Living the way I want to live.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
I'm not an action hero. I do thrillers, with action in them.
Apocalypse Now.
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
It will happen. There is a script, but we don't have a start date yet.
I can't decide between (UN Secretary-General) KOFI ANNAN and BRAD PITT.
You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.
[as the garbage compactor closes in]
Han Solo: One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner. [Star Wars]
I didn't just wake up one morning 63 years old, so it's not a real blow to me. It's been incremental. I've been able to accommodate.
That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time. It's now 40 years later and the world has changed a lot, and the people have too.
[Exiled from the United States, Polanski shoots in Europe and generally works with European producing partners. He has nonetheless managed to attract Hollywood stars -- like Sigourney Weaver in 1994's] Death and the Maiden ... Frantic.
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
That's not such a bad thing, is it?
I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.
There was a beginning, a middle and an end. Then gone. He left a huge impression.
Manhunt? That's still in the air.
I don't feel good about taking the platform, merely on account of my celebrity. I believe that the people I support are in a position to make a better argument for the cause, based on facts and their expertise, than I am on the authority of my celebrity.
YAHOOOOO! You're all clear, kid. Now let's blow this thing and go home. [Star Wars]
All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
I don't answer questions about my private life, ... Hollywood Homicide.
Cody said the kids asked if he got an autograph and he said, 'No, but I got a hug and a handshake, and that's better than an autograph.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time
[He's probably best known for his work as a gay artist who lived next door to a cranky, obsessive-compulsive writer played by Jack Nicholson in 1997's] As Good As It Gets. ... Sabrina.
It works for him [Steven Spielberg] because there's a child-like glee in it that's part of the whole process. It's not just dumb, it's dumb and inspired and gleeful . . .
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.
Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.”
And why not?
It's very little trouble for me to accomodate [my fans], unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time
I didn't kill my wife.
It was great fun working on that stuff with [Sean Connery]. It was a question of just give and take, passing the ball at the right time, seeing who was open.
I look for something that has a chance to be a good movie; it's that simple.
Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. [Star Wars]
Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
Well, you can forget your troubles with those Imperial slugs. I told you I'd outrun 'em.
[Nobody is listening]
Don't everyone thank me at once.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Hmmm... Scoundrel. I like the sound of that.
I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,' ... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy. [Star Wars]
We hope to get started this summer. I can't tell you anything about it.
What amuses me most about Skip is he often represents everyone in the deal, ... And, he does a really good job for everybody ? I've always walked away from every negotiation and thought, 'Jesus, how did he get that?'
I don't do as many films as I used to because I am more involved in the process.
[Polanski shoots in Europe and generally works with European producing partners. He has nonetheless managed to attract Hollywood stars - like Sigourney Weaver in 1994's] Death and the Maiden ... Frantic.
It's been a while, it's good to be back.
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