Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.
Sam ElliottI'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
Sam ElliottEveryone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.
Sam ElliottI'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
Sam Elliott