Harrison: I wanted to shovel coal

12 April 2012

Harrison 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.

In an interview, 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."

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