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Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott
American Actor
Born: Aug 9, 1944
Actor Love Me People Think You
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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. Sam Elliott
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I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot. Sam Elliott
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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
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You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was a lifeguard in a swimming pool in Portland, Ore. And I have known and met and befriended a number of oceangoing lifeguards in California where I live. Sam Elliott
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me. Sam Elliott
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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. Sam Elliott
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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. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors. Sam Elliott
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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world. Sam Elliott
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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
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My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money. Sam Elliott
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I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen. Sam Elliott
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I've had those periods in my career when I was sitting around waiting for a phone call and had an agent who was doing the same thing rather than going out there to shake the bushes looking for a job for me. It's a frustrating game, that's the downside of this business - the rejection. Sam Elliott
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Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me. Sam Elliott
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My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston. Sam Elliott
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My western heritage runs deep. Sam Elliott
Heritage Runs Western Deep
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
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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
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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
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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
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My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut. Sam Elliott
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