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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"'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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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?"

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

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

"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."