I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.