Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I've made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.

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.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.