I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.
I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live.
I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.
Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.
I was one of the early guys from my generation to have hair on his face. Me and Tom Selleck, and I was first.
I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where my world is.
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.
My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut.
I did beef ads for about eight years because I love the people in that industry, and there are a lot of people who make their living in the beef world. Ranchers, primarily.
Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.
The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.
