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 realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.