It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
“I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.”
“I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.”