Westerns Quotes · Page 4

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.

— Jason Statham

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going…

— Ben Mendelsohn

“It’s been fifteen years since I’ve killed a man. At least a man against whom I held a grudge.”

— L.J. Martin

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off…

— William Wyler

There's something very truthful about American brutality, spirit and myth-making that is so present in the great westerns.

— Fred Hechinger

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

— Tom Selleck

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade…

— Tom Selleck

I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I…

— Russell Johnson

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's…

— Randolph Scott

I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and…

— Anson Mount

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is…

— Tom Selleck

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

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

I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the…

— Babette Mangolte

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which…

— John Carpenter

We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and…

— Eric Kripke

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason…

— Christian Bale

My dad started to watch westerns at dollar cinemas in Seoul and felt like America was a miraculous place. His family had…

— Lee Isaac Chung

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of…

— Clint Eastwood

“The only way to conquer Barbara Stanwyck was to kill her, if she didn’t kill you first. Lynn Bari wanted any husband…

— Ray Hagen

“What the fuck is wrong with Westerns? Westerns are the shit.” “Oh yeah, tell me, why are westerns THE SHIT?” Ti said,…

— T.M. Frazier

You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came…

— Clint Eastwood

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

— George Pelecanos

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

— John Wayne

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

— Glenn Ford

The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

— Denis Leary

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

— Lily Rabe

You know, Alundra Blayze, with her looks could star in TV westerns...if she had two more legs.

— Jerry Lawler

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

— Joe Dante

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

— Ken Curtis

“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...”

— Johnny D. Boggs

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life

— Dyan Cannon

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

— Bruce Campbell

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

— Barry Pepper