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

"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."

"I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment."

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

"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."

"I think of myself as an assistant storyteller."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?"

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures."

"On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way."

"'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change."

"I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

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

"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 have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience."

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

"Hollywood's got its own particular environment."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."