The Best Sam Elliott quotes

I’ve been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that’s where my world is. — Sam Elliott

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods. — Sam Elliott

I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, ‘Wow.’ It’s that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the ’50s. — Sam Elliott

I was single–minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. — Sam Elliott

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials. — Sam Elliott

The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it’s an embarrassment of riches that I’ve got both. — Sam Elliott

I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies. — Sam Elliott

Everyone 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 Elliott

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project. — Sam Elliott

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 Elliott

I was never afraid of hard work. — Sam Elliott

It’s never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That’s as good as it gets. I don’t even know what to refer to him as. He’s just a great guy. He’s iconic on his own merits. — Sam Elliott

I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, ‘Thank You For Smoking,’ and I’d go work with him to do anything. — Sam Elliott

My dad worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and he worked for the Department of Interior, you know, like the federal government. And consequently, I was outdoors a lot in my lifetime. — Sam Elliott

I was one of the early guys from my generation to have hair on his face. Me and Tom Selleck, and I was first. — Sam Elliott

I’m not a quick study, so I’m always struggling for my words right up until. — Sam Elliott

It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way. — Sam Elliott

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you. — Sam Elliott

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me. — Sam Elliott

I think every actor’s dream is somebody writes something specifically for them. — Sam Elliott

I’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 Elliott

My family is all from the Southwest. My great–great–grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston. — Sam Elliott

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you’re a lucky individual. — Sam Elliott