Indiana Jones Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
29th January 2015
Quote: "I don't know, I might be. I just got back from the woods hunting, killing a bunch of stuff... I have no idea. It's the first I'm hearing of it." Guardians Of The Galaxy star Chris Pratt plays down rumours suggesting he has been tipped to take over the INDIANA JONES franchise from Harrison Ford.
6th June 2012
Quote: "I'll use my name to get a table or an appointment with the doctor. These are the practical uses of fame." INDIANA JONES legend Harrison Ford doesn't hesitate to name drop if it means he'll be seated at a better table.
9th November 2010
Quote: "If there's something that the three of us can agree on then I'd love to do it. George is working on something now, but I haven't really seen anything on paper. We've talked a little bit about it. It would be fun." Harrison Ford is keen to film a fifth installment of his hit INDIANA JONES franchise - as long as both producers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are on board.
14th October 2010
Quote: "I have dressed up as a pet. It was for Halloween. I dressed as a dog in a hot dog suit. And people said, 'Hey, I know you!' People still recognised me in the suit!" INDIANA JONES star Harrison Ford struggles to disguise himself even in costume.
10th June 2010
Quote: "I don't like talking about it. It makes the guy who got the job look like the second choice. I'm sure Harrison Ford is sick of hearing about this." Tom Selleck on missing the chance to play INDIANA JONES because he was contracted to play MAGNUM, P.I. on TV.
5th May 2010
Quote: "Charlie's obsessed with INDIANA JONES at the moment. I think it's magnificent, to a degree. I really don't want any more critiques about my abilities and Harrison Ford's abilities. It's kind of starting to p**s me off." Action star Russell Crowe faces film critiques from his six year old son.
3rd March 2010
Quote: "Steven and George and I are sort of agreed on a germ of an idea and we're seeing what comes of it. The process works like this... we come to some basic agreement and then George goes away for a long time and works on it. Then Steven and I get it in some form, some embryonic form. Then if we like it we start working with George on it and at some point down the line it's ready and we do it." Harrison Ford reveals he's reached an agreement with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas on an idea for the next INDIANA JONES movie.
13th January 2010
Quote: "I'd love to see a development of the relationship between him and his son and him and his new wife. I think it'd be fun." Harrison Ford would love to swing back into action for a fifth INDIANA JONES movie.
26th November 2008
Fact: The light sabre weapon wielded by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars is expected to fetch $180,000 (GBP120,000) at an auction of famous Hollywood props next month (Dec08). It will go under the hammer, along with INDIANA JONES' hat and the original GREMLINS puppet, at the sale in Los Angeles on 11 December (08).
2nd November 2008
Fact: Hollywood star Harrison Ford dressed up as a pea pod for Halloween (31Oct08), complete with green tights and green facepaint. The INDIANA JONES star was spotted out in Los Angeles with his girlfriend Calista Flockhart, who was dressed as a hippy.
28th September 2008
Quote: "INDIANA JONES was going to be a success whether I was in it or not. You could have put Freddie Prinze Jr. in my part. Put Frankie Muniz in Transformers and it still would have been a hit. So I realise how lucky I've been." SHIA LaBEOUF.
24th July 2008
Quote: "I've had some big no's... The first was when I was up for INDIANA JONES and Steven Spielberg turned me down. The next came when I was up for Superman and they passed." David Hasselhoff on the blockbuster film roles he missed out on.
8th July 2008
Fact: INDIANA JONES + THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL has made more than $735 million (GBP367.5 million) at the global box office since its release in May (08).
9th June 2008
Fact: Harrison Ford is set to swap his action hero antics in INDIANA JONES for the role of a doctor in a forthcoming medical drama. The 65-year-old has signed up to star in CROWLEY - based on the true story of a couple whose children suffer from a rare genetic disorder.
6th June 2008
Quote: "I even bought his INDIANA JONES action figure." Julia Roberts' actress niece Emma Roberts on her crush on SHIA LaBEOUF.
3rd June 2008
Quote: "I didn't even know who Calista was when I met her, because I never watch TV." INDIANA JONES star Harrison Ford was oblivious to his girlfriend Calista Flockhart's TV background.
24th May 2008
Quote: "There's no INDIANA JONES without HARRISON, so it's all what he wants to do." SHIA LaBEOUF insists he's not ready to take over the Indiana Jones film franchise, despite reports.
23rd May 2008
Quote: "What kind of an idiot goes out in the jungle in a leather jacket?" Harrison Ford is baffled by his character INDIANA JONES' wardrobe.
21st May 2008
Quote: "When you can be fired, it's really easy to keep a secret." SHIA LaBEOUF insists he had no problems keeping INDIANA JONES + THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL plot secrets and details to himself.
21st May 2008
Quote: "What makes you nervous is not only the elements or the craziness of the fight but the fact that CATE was pregnant while we were filming, and fighting a pregnant woman is a really scary thing." SHIA LaBEOUF admits he was nervous in fight scenes opposite Cate Blanchett in new film INDIANA JONES + THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.
20th May 2008
Quote: "I've been promised a scarf." Harrison Ford is looking forward to his winter treat from INDIANA JONES + THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL co-star Karen Allen, who runs a knitwear business in Massachusetts when she isn't acting.
20th May 2008
Fact: The new INDIANA JONES movie is expected to make $168 million (GBP84 million) at the box office in its first five days on release. The film hits cinemas on 22 May (08).
19th May 2008
Quote: "The hairdo is George Lucas' invention. He's always big on, he told me, designing the looks and the hairdos for the characters. He's a frustrated hairdresser." Australian actress Cate Blanchett muses on the INDIANA JONES moviemaker's secret passion for styling women's hair.
16th May 2008
Quote: "I don't play heroes; I play men with dilemmas." Actor Harrison Ford refuses to see his character INDIANA JONES as an action hero.
15th May 2008
Quote: "His wife, Kate Capshaw, had just bought a lot of my knitwear for Christmas presents. I thought he was going to tell me he loved the presents!" Actress Karen Allen thought Steven Spielberg's INDIANA JONES casting call was just a personal thank-you.
13th May 2008
Quote: "The first time I met Harrison (Ford) we were on an Air Force base doing a stunt and vehicle training. He arrived in a big chopper, and everyone stopped what they were doing. He got out of the helicopter, pulled a whip out of the glove box and proceeded to pull a sword out of a man's hand using the whip. He then introduced himself to everyone." Actor Shia LaBeouf reveals his action-packed first meeting with INDIANA JONES star Harrison Ford.
12th May 2008
Quote: "It's cops-and-robbers stuff. And it's all to make Mr. Lucas an extra billion, as if he needs it." INDIANA JONES star John Hurt isn't impressed with George Lucas' decision to bring back the adventure franchise.
11th May 2008
Quote: "Someone told me when I was cast that I was the same age as when Harrison Ford did the first INDIANA JONES." Robert Downey Jr. on playing IRON MAN at 43.
3rd May 2008
Quote: "I told SEAN, `I'm getting old enough to play my own father, so we don't need him anymore.'" Harrison Ford on Sean Connery's decision not to play INDIANA JONES' father in the fourth installment of the film franchise.
22nd April 2008
Quote: "I stand to make hundreds and hundreds of dollars." Harrison Ford jokes about the fortune he's likely to make if his latest INDIANA JONES film is a hit.
21st April 2008
Fact: The marketing and productions costs for the fourth INDIANA JONES movie are so high that the summer blockbuster, INDIANA JONES + THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, will have to make $400 million (GBP200 million) at the box office before filmmakers Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford get paid, according to a new Los Angeles Times report.
21st April 2008
Quote: "Kick back and work for Scotland's freedom? I don't think I'll make that same choice... I'm still having as much fun and taking as much pleasure, and I'm as intellectually stimulated by the process, as I ever was." Harrison Ford has no plans to join his INDIANA JONES + THE LAST CRUSADE co-star SIR Sean Connery in retirement. Connery refused to come out of retirement to play Ford's onscreen father in the upcoming fourth Indiana Jones film.
20th April 2008
Quote: "Kick back and work for Scotland's freedom? I don't think I'll make that same choice... I'm still having as much fun and taking as much pleasure, and I'm as intellectually stimulated by the process, as I ever was." Harrison Ford has no plans to join his INDIANA JONES + THE LAST CRUSADE co-star SIR Sean Connery in retirement. Connery refused to come out of retirement to play Ford's onscreen father in the upcoming fourth Indiana Jones film.
18th April 2008
Quote: "I stay away from fistfights. Anytime I've been in one, I've broken a bone in my hand or finger." Harrison Ford insists he's nothing like his movie action hero INDIANA JONES when it comes to physical combat.
18th April 2008
Quote: "It's exactly the same costume. It was made for me 20 years ago and it fits me now. It feels good." Harrison Ford insists the outfit he wears in the new INDIANA JONES movie is the same one he first donned as the movie adventurer.
16th April 2008
Fact: The driver Harrison Ford used to get around while making the latest INDIANA JONES movie was the same guy Tom Hanks counted on behind the wheel for another Steven Spielberg film, The Terminal.
25th March 2008
Quote: "When you do a movie like this, a sequel that's very, very anticipated, people anticipate ultimately that it's going to be the Second Coming. And it's not. It's just a movie." Filmmaker George Lucas asks fans to keep their expectations in check ahead of the release of long-awaited sequel INDIANA JONES + THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.
1st March 2008
Fact: The hugely-anticipated INDIANA JONES sequel THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May (08).
26th November 2007
Quote: "I think my favourite moment was when HARRISON (FORD) flew in and jumped out of his helicopter to come to rehearsal with his whip in his hand. He wasn't in INDIANA JONES gear." SHIA LaBEOUF's highlight of 2007 was seeing his INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL co-star make a spectacular entrance.
16th October 2007
Quote: "As a young girl... you want to kiss Harrison Ford, but I wanted to be him. I wanted to be INDIANA JONES and have those adventures." Cate Blanchett admits starring in the new Indiana Jones movie is the next best thing to being the character.
15th September 2007
Quote: "It's the most secret movie. There are FBI people on the studio tour." Cate Blanchett reveals that nothing is being left to chance on the set of the new INDIANA JONES movie.
27th July 2007
Quote: "He's doing them, he just has a few more ice packs and a few more massages." Kathleen Kennedy, co-executive producer of the forthcoming INDIANA JONES sequel, assures fans Harrison Ford is still every inch the action man - the 65-year-old is still doing his own stunts.
4th July 2007
Quote: "People say, 'What are you doing for your 21st birthday, SHIA?' And I'm like, 'I'm making an INDIANA JONES movie!' What's better than that?'" SHIA LaBEOUF had a simple answer to friendly enquiries about his plans to celebrate his recent 21st birthday.
30th January 2007
Quote: "They're gonna do INDIANA JONES again, they're doing Die Hard again and I'm doing Beverly Hills Cop, so the geezers are back!" Eddie Murphy.
2nd January 2007
Quote: "I'm delighted to be back in business with my old friends. I don't know if the pants still fit, but I know the hat will." Sixty-four-year-old Harrison Ford on reprising his role as INDIANA JONES and reuniting with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
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