Quotes by Sam Elliott

• 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.
• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
• I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.
• I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
• I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
• 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.
• 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.
• I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.