Westerns Quotes
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Westerns Quotes & Sayings
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I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
— Jeff Bridges
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi ... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
— Jensen Ackles
It's been fifteen years since I've killed a man. At least a man against whom I held a grudge.
— L.J. Martin
From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.
— Eli Wallach
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know ... It's just good entertainment.
— Tom Selleck
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
— Bruce Boxleitner
I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.
— Giancarlo Esposito
Riding a bull must be a bit like flying an ultralight. You get up there and have an exhilarating ride, but then you still have to get down.
— Susan Spence
I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
— Patrick DeWitt
I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.
— Mark Ruffalo
I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
— Winona Ryder
As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!
— Kara Walker
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
— Hugh Mackay
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
— Tab Hunter
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
— Quentin Tarantino
I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
— Alexander Payne
I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.
— Morgan Freeman
After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'
— Carroll Baker
I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
— Ben Mendelsohn
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
— Tom Selleck
father loved to watch old westerns and the evening news,
— Nicholas Sparks
I never dreamed I would do Westerns.
— Eli Wallach
I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
— Patrice Leconte
All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.
— Gore Verbinski
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.
— Ridley Scott
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
— Daniel Craig
Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.
— Quentin Tarantino
I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.
— Terry Teachout
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
— Joe Dante
I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
— Patrick Warburton
The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
— Patrick DeWitt
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
— Robert Duvall
You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.
— Charles Portis
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
— Dorothy Malone
I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
— Ken Curtis
All of my friends want to be in my books, but no one wants to die ... ummm ... I write westerns ... everyone dies.
— Barry Andrew Chambers
War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
— Charlotte Lamb
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
— Samuel L. Jackson
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.
— Hideo Kojima
When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
— Gerald W. Haslam
Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.
— Melissa Marr
Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.
— Larry McMurtry
Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.
— Glenn Ford
Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
— Gary Paulsen
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
— John Wayne
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
— Roger Ebert
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
— Ridley Scott
I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.
— John Landis
You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
— Clive Sinclair
Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
— Ramon Rodriguez
I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
— Patrick DeWitt
I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
— Quentin Tarantino
Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
— Randolph Scott
When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.
— James Best
By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.
— Gil Kane
I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.
— Luke Perry
What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.
— James Arness
You know, Alundra Blayze, with her looks could star in TV westerns ... if she had two more legs.
— Jerry Lawler
I love Westerns!
— Barry Corbin
Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.
— Kevin Costner
We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.
— Moe Howard
I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.
— Harry Dean Stanton