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

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

Few of us are as good as we think we are; none of us are as good as we can be.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.

Life isn't fair, but you can be.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

Education always precedes experience but Your real victory is when you Experience something you haven’t been educated for and you Excel.

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

I'm no longer curious about things that will upset me.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.