I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. — Jensen Ackles
Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider. — Michael Biehn
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. — George Carlin
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. — Gary Cooper
There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ass if you dont shut up. — Jim Ross
Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch. — John Wayne
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses. — J. Frank Dobie
I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably. — Ronnie Dunn
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. — Charlton Heston
Call’s gone to round up a dern bunch of cowboys so we can head out for Montana with a dern bunch of cows and suffer for the rest of our lives. — Larry Mcmurtry
I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star. — Richard Pryor
Western films don't do very well in India. — Baz Luhrmann
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. — Dorothy Malone
Men who didn’t know how to get on and off a horse would not be much use around a cow outfit. — Larry Mcmurtry
Short Cowboy Movie Quotes
Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other. — Clayton Moore
You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle. — George Jung
It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living — Conor Oberst
I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum. — Roddy Piper
Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses. — Toby Keith
Saddle your dreams before you ride em. — Mary Webb
Cowboy Movie Image Quotes
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
Cowboy Quotes
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be.
But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price. — Lane Frost
We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him! — Hank Williams, Jr.
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. — Winston Churchill
For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know. — Banjo Paterson
Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. — Doc Holliday
Cowboys ain't made by boots or hats. They're made by the man inside em that still respects his raising.
Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. — Alex Cox
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. — Paul Theroux
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. — Lyndon B. Johnson
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. — Clint Eastwood
Western Movie Quotes
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? — Wyatt Earp
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. — John Wayne
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have. — Clint Eastwood
I'm not interested in a realistic look - not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. — Michael Novak
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me. — Clint Eastwood
What we got here is a failure to communicate. — Paul Newman
I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope. — Seth MacFarlane
Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from. — John Wayne
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct. — Camille Paglia
Western Films Quotes
Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white. — Paul Schrader
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic. — Gus Van Sant
I think that my films are westerns only in their exterior aspects. Within them are some of my truths, which happily, I see, belong to lots of parts of the world. Not just America. — Sergio Leone
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait. — Clint Eastwood
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. — Martin Scorsese
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50 and it's 3% good and 97% stupid.
Every man has got to know his limitations. — Clint Eastwood
Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up. — Zhang Ziyi
The reason why I always wanted to make an American film was because of the Western genre. It is something that I would very much like to make in the future, because it's very uniquely American, and I can't make a Western film in Korean. — Park Chan-wook
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. — Beau Bridges
My Cowboy Quotes
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. — Alan Moore
I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers. — Steve Kanaly
Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me. — Blake Shelton
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. — Warren Buffett
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life. — Chris Colfer
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy. — Michael Biehn
To make a great film need three things - the script, the script and the script.
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — Tammara Webber
I'm scared of snakebites - that's the origin of cowboy boots, protection - but my toes need to breathe. — Gavin McInnes
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. — Will Rogers
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. — Robert Smith Surtees
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! — Nicholas Evans
A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure. — Rebecca Carroll
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope. — Ron Miles
A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. — Federico Tesio
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. — Beryl Markham
Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb — Will Rogers
Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers. — Charles Marion Russell
A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan. — Pam Brown
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes — George Lucas
I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to. — Karan Johar
I'm so proud to have work in this movie, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that once again shows us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that we can be so different, too. — Gustavo Santaolalla
There's going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and it's going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria. — Chris McDaniel
I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr. — John Green
...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them — Annie Proulx
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it. — Annie Proulx
"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians. — Lewis Black
One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement. — Jake Gyllenhaal
The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory. — Harrison Ford
A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. — Sonny Liston
When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails. — Robert Englund
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you. — Andre Benjamin
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies. — Brion James
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy. — Clint Eastwood
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys. — Val Kilmer
I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat. — Alexander Skarsgard
The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats. — Muhammad Ali
Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it. — John Wayne
When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world. — Bruce Dern
The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses. — Richard O'Brien
The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride. — Alden Ehrenreich
I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor. — Will Poulter
When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much. — Olivier Martinez
Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse. — Sayings
[President Bush] recently challenged Iraqi soldiers still fighting U.S. troops like so: ... 'My answer is bring 'em on.' For those of you who may be criticizing Bush for acting like a movie cowboy, let me remind you. He's actually acting more like a movie cheerleader. — Jon Stewart
Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career. — Orlando Bloom
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.' — John Sayles
The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film. — Robert Englund
For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially. — Scott Eastwood
Cowboy movies aren't supposed to be in vogue. I still like them. You know, I'm still out there pitching the hell out of them. — Kevin Costner
So we went off and made this movie ["Jim Younger"], and I've gotta tell ya, it's as much fun as I've ever had making a movie. It was kind of like adult summer camp. We put on this Western gear, strapped on our six-shooters, and went out and played cowboy all day! It wasn't an easy shoot. — Keith Carradine
I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, right? She goes, yup, that's who we'd be. We wouldn't be those guys in the covered wagons. We'd be the Indians. — Quentin Tarantino
I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an interesting way to tackle it. Just even the way that the spaghetti westerns tackled the history of the Old West, I thought it could be a neat thing to do that with World War II, but just as opposed to using cowboy iconography, using World War II iconography as kind of the jumping-off point. — Quentin Tarantino
I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The Indian had been killed in cowboy movies, or was playing bingo in Oklahoma. Also, in my middle-class Mexican family indio was a bad word, one my parents shy away from to this day. That's one of the reasons, of course, why I always insist, in my bratty way, on saying, Soy indio! - "I am an Indian!" — Richard Rodriguez
My uncle Claude was my favorite uncle he was also my godfather. He and I were really, really close. He used to take me to see cowboy movies all the time when I was a little boy because I loved cowboy movies. He got a cowboy name for me, which was Smokey Joe. So from the time I was three years old if people asked me what my name was I didn't tell them my name was William, I told them my name was Smokey Joe. — Smokey Robinson
Monday is President's Day and former President Bill Clinton is very excited. He is taking George Bush, Sr. to 'Hooters'. ... George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been spending more and more time together. Doesn't that seem like an unusual couple to you, honestly? Earlier today they went to go see that gay cowboy movie. — David Letterman
I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them. — Heath Ledger
It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people. — Magnus
What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something. — George Clooney
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself. — Steven Pinker
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