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

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life

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.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.

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