Nobody sets out to make a bad film – I shouldn’t say ‘nobody.’ Some people certainly don’t care. Sam Elliott Read Quote
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 a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut. Sam Elliott Read Quote
I’ve spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of ’em go to other actors. Sam Elliott Read Quote
Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project. Sam Elliott Read Quote
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 enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I’ve always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it. Sam Elliott Read Quote
I’ve done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I’m thankful that some of them haven’t been seen. Sam Elliott Read Quote
Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me. Sam Elliott Read Quote
You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live. Sam Elliott Read Quote
The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it’s an embarrassment of riches that I’ve got both. Sam Elliott Read Quote
