Sam Elliott Quotes

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

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 think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

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.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.