Sam Elliott

I did beef ads for about eight years because I love the people in that industry, and there are a lot of…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was…

— Sam Elliott

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

— Sam Elliott

I was never afraid of hard work.

— Sam Elliott

Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to…

— Sam Elliott

My western heritage runs deep.

— Sam Elliott

I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also…

— Sam Elliott

I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted…

— Sam Elliott

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

— Sam Elliott

My dad worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and he worked for the Department of Interior, you know, like the federal…

— Sam Elliott

Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.

— Sam Elliott

I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him…

— Sam Elliott

I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that…

— Sam Elliott

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…

— Sam Elliott