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- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My western heritage runs deep.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cement
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never afraid of hard work.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was one of the early guys from my generation to have hair on his face. Me and Tom Selleck, and I was first.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020