The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day.

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

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 gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

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

I take a vitamin every day; it's called a steak.