Getting Quotes by Sam Elliott

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

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

— Sam Elliott

My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.

— Sam Elliott

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

My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.

— Sam Elliott

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

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

— Sam Elliott

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

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

— Sam Elliott

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

— Sam Elliott

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

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott