Sam Elliott Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I think Ang brought a certain amount of humanity to the Hulk that nobody ever expected would come off the screen here.

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

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation.

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

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.

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

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

We were shooting The Sacketts in Arizona, and it fell on me to go pick up Louis (L'Amour) at the Tucson airport.

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." (Quoted in the December 1976 isue of "Playgirl."

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

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.'

I was really happy that Ang Lee won the Best Director award, I got to know him very well on Hulk (2003). But I'm not the Brokeback Mountain (2005) crowd, what can I tell ya. I'm more of a purist. But at the same time, it's a new day"

Trivia

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28. [1976]

His bare-buns scene in The Legacy (1978) earned the highest rating (3 stars) from "The Bare Facts" -- a printed guide to nudity in movies.

In his book, "Shirtless! The Hollywood Male Physique", Donald Reuter refers to Elliott as a "super bod" and gives him a full-page color photograph from his 1976 movie, Lifeguard (1976).

Daughter with Katharine Ross, Cleo Rose Elliott, born on September 17, 1984.

Illness forced him to drop out of the 1982 TV-movie, The Ambush Murders (1982) (TV). He was replaced by James Brolin.

He is an alumnus of Clark College located in Vancouver, Washington.