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. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I did beef ads for about eight years because I love the people in that industry, and there are a lot of people who… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete,… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way. — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
