Harrison Ford Quotes

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

I didn't get rich and famous, but I do what I love.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll earn money and I was happy to receive it.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

I think about the work I've landed, and I think to myself, 'If I never land a job again, I could still die happy.'

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I'm one of those few actresses who works all the time, and even though I haven't done a show that literally puts me on some kind of map - as in, that's how I'm known and that's how I'll always be known - I'm very lucky.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.