When I was looking for an agent, I went and met with this guy, they had a portfolio full of photographs and he was thumbing through these photographs and he closed the book and slid the book back over to me and said,' If I was Sam Elliott, I'd go back to Portland, Oregon and if Sam Elliott're going to stay in this town, Sam Elliott should take some voice and diction lessons and learn how to talk and get rid of that dialect.'.

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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

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Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.

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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

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I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

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I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

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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.

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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

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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.

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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

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I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.

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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.

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I'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.

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

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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

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

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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

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I think I grew up thinking about my voice as kind of funny because it had this Southwest dialect to it. I sounded very much like my mom in terms of the dialect, i knew that through this years, particularly as I grew older, that I developed this different sound. So I guess I knew at some point before I got into the business that my voice was going to be part of it.

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I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.

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