Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

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 all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.