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

Ford: "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."

Ford: "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."

Ford: "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."

Ford: "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."

Ford: "We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace."

Ford: "There is no child left within me, none whatsoever."

Ford: "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."

Ford: "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."

Ford: "I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"

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

Ford: "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."

Ford: "I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right."

Ford: "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."

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

Ford: "I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it."

Ford: "To me, success is choice and opportunity."

Ford: "I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can."

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