Westerns Quotes · Page 3

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

— Keith Carradine

Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

— Ridley Scott

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

— Moe Howard

I've always loved a good Western.

— Ryan Robbins

They killed off variety shows and they killed off Westerns by having too many of the same thing.

— Mike Connors

Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.

— Bill Pullman

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

— Gary Cooper

Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out…

— Kevin Costner

“You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who…

— Charles Portis

All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.

— W. Earl Brown

I grew up with Westerns and it's just always something I've wanted to do.

— Ti West

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

— George Carlin

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

There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up…

— Alec Sulkin

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

I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day,…

— Kevin Macdonald

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made,…

— Dennis Farina

I want to do a Western so bad because I want to ride horses and act. Those are two of my favorite…

— Emily Rose

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

— Joel McCrea

If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the…

— Lance Henriksen

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and…

— Matthew Settle

I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just…

— Quentin Tarantino

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre…

— Ethan Coen

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp…

— Elmore Leonard

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are…

— Steve Truglia

I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin…

— Sam Peckinpah

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was.

— Ridley Scott

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

— Lisa Joy

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.

— John de Lancie

I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different.

— Takashi Miike

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

— Martin Landau

After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

— Carroll Baker

I love Westerns, and 'Back To The Future III' is one of my favorite movies.

— Brian Quinn

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

— Jacques Delors

I like westerns; I like the people I work with and I like working outdoors.

— Robert Fuller

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

— Richard Widmark