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.

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.

I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.