Art is competitive.

Everybody likes to win.

Well, I had a wonderful career.

I like the good feeling movies.

I'm a man without a corporation.

I love working in Texas anywhere.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

There's no smoking section in heaven.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

I try not to look for messages in films.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

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

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk.

There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

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

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

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

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

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