Sam Elliott Quotes
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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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.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
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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.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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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 even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.