What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he’s fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that’s what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.
I look at decisions like – it’s like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he’s being chased. There’s uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he’s going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.
I used to dirt bike a lot. I can’t do that anymore. Can’t eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can’t be in ‘Indiana Jones’ and be a fatso!
I’m going to teach high school. History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too.
It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn’t an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn’t be Indiana Jones.
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood – and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
‘Indiana Jones’ was me growing up. I could quote lines from ‘Tango and Cash’ as much as I could quote lines from ‘The Searchers’.
Something I grew up with is John Williams, of course, with ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Star Wars.’
None of the films I’ve done was designed for a mass audience, except for ‘Indiana Jones.’ Nobody in their right mind thought ‘American Graffiti’ or ‘Star Wars’ would work.
Fans have always said that I would make a great Indiana Jones, a great Young Indiana Jones.
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
‘Indiana Jones’ wasn’t physically tough, but they are the only two films I’ve ever been ill on. On ‘The Last Crusade,’ I got sciatica. That’s when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.
The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’
I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
One thing that I always loved about, say, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that’s really cool. Because he’s the one you care about at the end of the day.
One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema – ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.’
There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the ’60s and continued into the ’70s, which in large part gave rise to things like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones,’ among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.
Well, for me, my favourite ‘Indiana Jones’ is ‘The Last Crusade,’ because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that’s my favourite one.
‘Indiana Jones’ was me growing up. I could quote lines from ‘Tango and Cash’ as much as I could quote lines from ‘The Searchers’.
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
I think ‘Indiana Jones’ was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.
I used to dirt bike a lot. I can’t do that anymore. Can’t eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can’t be in ‘Indiana Jones’ and be a fatso!
It’s both Indiana Jones and ‘National Geographic’ that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.
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