Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.

I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.

There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.