Acting Not Ford's Dream Job
Harrison 'never planned' to be a movie starHarrison Ford has told how he never thought he would make it as a film star and that his boyhood dream was to be a coal delivery man.
Now one of Hollywood's leading men, Ford, who has starred in films like the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, earns around £18m per film.
In an interview with America's Parade magazine, he said: "I never planned on being a movie star."
Ford decided he would never be a lead actor and would, instead, end up a character actor who would disappear into the roles he played.
He told the magazine: "I didn't think there was any potential for me to be a leading man because I never saw acting as that kind of thing.
"I just saw it as an opportunity to portray different people in different kinds of stories."
He added: "I wanted to play those parts because I wanted Harrison Ford to have many lives."
Ford revealed that when he was growing up in Chicago, he had boyhood dreams of becoming a forest ranger or a coal delivery man.
"I didn't want to sit in a damn office for 20 years doing the same thing with the same people over and over again," he said.
"I was this little kid looking out the window and seeing somebody with a shovel turn a big pile of coal on the sidewalk into no pile at all.
"I thought, 'That's work! Doing that must have felt good!' There's still something satisfying to me about a shovel on a sidewalk."
In fact, when he first began acting in the Sixties, Ford had a sideline - carpentry. He even built the elaborate entrance to Francis Ford Coppola's office at Goldwyn Studios.
Ford, who turns 60 later this month, has been dating 37-year-old Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart for about four months and is separated from his second wife.
