Ford: 'Carpentry taught me to act'

Harrison Ford has revealed that he learned how to act through carpentry.

The Indiana Jones star, who worked as a carpenter for years before becoming an actor, said that skills he learned as a craftsman have helped him develop his acting skills.

Ford told Parade magazine: "When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, 'Look, I'm terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,' and she would say, 'No limit for better.'

"I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow. I don't look at things from an art perspective. I look at them from a craft perspective."

Ford is engaged to Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart.