Sam Elliott Quotes

I was never afraid of hard work.
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'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'm a sixth-generation Texan, even though I was born in California.
I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.
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.
It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.
It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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.
I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.
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.
Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.
Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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.
My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.
My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.
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.
My western heritage runs deep.
Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.
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.
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