How to Age Like Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford is 82, but he has no intention of slowing down anytime soon. 

The Apple TV+ dramedy Shrinking, in which Ford plays a psychiatrist with Parkinson's disease (reportedly inspired by Michael J. Fox), has already been renewed for Season 3. And he’s also costarring with Anthony Mackie in the new Marvel action movie Captain America: Brave New World, which opens in theaters nationwide on Feb. 14. 

How does Ford continue to make so many amazing movies that stand the test of time? It’s not just his stuntmen who make him look good. As Ford has explained to us, in several profiles and interviews, he refuses to let growing old be a detriment. Some of the best things in his life — getting his pilot’s license, his marriage to Calista Flockhart — happened after he turned 50.

Here are 13 of our favorite words of wisdom that Ford has shared with AARP over the years.

On why he keeps working even though he doesn’t need to

“I take pleasure in being useful.”

On why he got married for a third time

“Because (Calista and I) lived together for 10 years and it seemed like we were going to get along. And I love her and she wanted to get married, and I wanted to get married.”

Harrison Ford portrays the Red Hulk in “Captain America: Brave New World.”

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On the virtues that he lives by

“Finish what you start, be tough but fair, take pride in your work, do your best.”

On why he loves flying airplanes

“Flying absolutely reinvented my life. When I’m flying, I’ve got to do it according to the rules, just like everybody else. I’m not cut any slack for any other reason. I’m just another pilot.”

On why being young is overrated

“I don’t want to be young again. I was young, and now I enjoy being old. You are certainly physically diminished by age but there are wonderful things about age — richness of experience, the full weight of all the time you’ve been spending getting to being old — and there’s a certain ease in it for me.”