63 Quotes by Sam Elliott

I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.

Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.

It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

My western heritage runs deep.

My dad worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and he worked for the Department of Interior, you know, like the federal government. And consequently, I was outdoors a lot in my lifetime.

I was one of the early guys from my generation to have hair on his face. Me and Tom Selleck, and I was first.

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.

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.

I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.