Sam Elliott Quotes

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Sam Elliott

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 9, 1944

I did beef ads for about eight years because I love the people in that industry, and there are a lot of people who make their living in the beef world. Ranchers, primarily.

Sam Elliott

I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.

Sam Elliott

I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.

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 was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection.

Sam Elliott

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

My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.

Sam Elliott

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

Sam Elliott

My western heritage runs deep.

Sam Elliott

My dad worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and he worked for the Department of Interior, you know, like the federal government. And consequently, I was outdoors a lot in my lifetime.

Sam Elliott

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

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

I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

Sam Elliott

I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.

Sam Elliott

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

Sam Elliott

I was never afraid of hard work.

Sam Elliott

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

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

I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where my world is.

Sam Elliott

I was one of the early guys from my generation to have hair on his face. Me and Tom Selleck, and I was first.

Sam Elliott