Westerns Quotes · Page 4

I would love to do a Western someday. Every time I watch any of them, I'm so envious.

— Sarah Clarke

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

— John Carpenter

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

— Aaron Eckhart

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

— Bruce Boxleitner

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.

— Hideo Kojima

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

— Rob Zombie

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

— Kevin Costner

It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear…

— Lauren Ambrose

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea…

— Lea Thompson

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few.…

— Alexander Payne

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things -…

— Margot Robbie

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And…

— Quentin Tarantino

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch…

— Shia LaBeouf

When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy…

— John Hickenlooper

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very…

— James Stewart

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive…

— Joel McCrea

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that…

— Melissa Rosenberg

If one were to go back to the '50s, the most popular TV genre on the air in the United States were…

— Chris Claremont

“That era provided a profusion of wonderful actors and actresses to admire—and not always the ones remembered by posterity. Take Joel McCrea,…

— Robert Wagner

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I…

— John Wayne

In a traditional Western there's always the bravado, and it's almost like they're winking that they know they're in a Western -…

— Ti West

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies,…

— Michael Keaton

Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there…

— Bill Fagerbakke

Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.

— Ramon Rodriguez

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

— Keith Carradine

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

— Tobin Bell

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do…

— Robert Duvall

I went East to become an actor and where do I end up? Being a cowboy in a Western.

— Joe Don Baker

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

— Sam Elliott

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

— Barry Pepper

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

— Bruce Campbell

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

— Richard Widmark

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

— David Mackenzie

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

— Quentin Tarantino

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

— Patrick deWitt

Nobody wants to see a bland period western. Who wants to see a cowboy carrying a purse?

— Robert Fuller

In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.

— George Stevens

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

— John Wayne

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle,…

— Lily Rabe