You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.
All I see is people out there who are hungry for more.
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.
I think television has always been one to replicate when something’s successful.
Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.
I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn’t afraid of risk.
But, you know there’s a lot of westerns – not that they were bad – it’s just that they can be remade because they’re great stories that aren’t indelible in an audience’s mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.
People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.
On a day when you’re not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it’s infectious – these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It’s very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It’s also very social, since you’re usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that’s on your mind.
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
Television’s grown up a lot. It’s a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I’m happy to see where it ends up.
And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.
The Westerns I like aren’t really comedies. I’m drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
You don’t do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?
We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we’re judged by our last word.
I haven’t gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you’re just unemployed and you don’t know where the next one is. And that does get old. It’s stressful.