I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

I'm very proud of my heritage.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.

I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

As a kid, I always thought the TV was a magic box in the corner of the room.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.