When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

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

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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've never wanted to be the boss.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

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.

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.

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

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

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?'

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

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

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.

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

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.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

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.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

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

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

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.

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

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.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

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

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

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

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.

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

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

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

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

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

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

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

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

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

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.