Best Westerns Sayings
89 Westerns quotes by 79 unique authors
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I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which…
— Clifton Collins, Jr.
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The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you…
— Ricky Schroder
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I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
— Morgan Freeman
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But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of…
— Stephen Fry
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
— Daniel Craig
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Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
— Robert Duvall
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People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's…
— Clint Eastwood
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Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
— Roger Ebert
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
— Aaron Eckhart
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
— Samuel L. Jackson
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make…
— Val Kilmer
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I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself…
— Shia LaBeouf
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When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people…
— Jason Reitman
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People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
— Roy Rogers
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I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
— Winona Ryder
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In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you…
— Ricky Schroder
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that…
— Martin Scorsese
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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
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
— Quentin Tarantino
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The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the…
— Emma Thompson
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I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.
— Rob Zombie
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How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put…
— John Steinbeck
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I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older…
— Joel McCrea
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I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.
— Tobin Bell
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