I Am My Age. I'm Not Making

[jimmy] Breslin's [write] Really Great Book On Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey Himself Wrote Quite A Lot. There's Some Film And Kinescope From Television.

An Icon Means Nothing To Me. I Don't Understand What It Means To Anybody Actually. It Seems Like A Word Of Convenience. It Seems To Attend To The Huge Success Of Certain Kinds Of Movies That I Did, But There's No Personal Utility In Being An Icon. I Don't Know What An Icon Does, Except Stand In A Corner Quietly Accepting Everyone's Attention. I Like To Work, So There's No Utility In Being An Icon.

I Never Followed Baseball Very Much. As A Kid, I Never Followed Sports.

My Occupation Is Assistant Storyteller. It Is Not "icon."

[after Playing Indiana Jones And Han Solo] Hero Image Concerns Me A Little, Though Not For My Sake. All It Means To Me Is That I Have A Responsibility Not To Get Caught Doing Anything Terrible And Thereby Jeopardise My Credentials. Not That I Do Terrible Things, Like Running Over Dogs Or Anything Like That. It Just Makes You Think Twice Before You Say Or Do Things In Public.