You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you’re making a fiction film, it’s entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.
Well, it’s like my movie, ‘The Apostle.’ Some people in the North don’t get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don’t shout, you can’t play one of those guys.
What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
I’m a man without a corporation.
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.
I take a vitamin every day; it’s called a steak.
Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.
You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
Although it wasn’t that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.
I wanted to show that crime doesn’t pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
There’s no smoking section in heaven.
I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I’m always looking for what’s out there – the potential.