Author Profile
Sam Elliott
1944 • American • Actor
40
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 40 quotesI'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
Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.— 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 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
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
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
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.— Sam Elliott
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
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.— 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
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.— 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
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.— Sam Elliott