My first movie was ‘The Mask Of Zorro,’ and that was all swords and horses and swashbuckling, and I thought, ‘This is what movies are.’ Obviously, I never made another one like that again; those are very rare.
There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
I’ve got some horses which, unfortunately due to my job, I don’t spend enough time with them, but they’re my release when I get home. I go down to the stables, muck ’em out and spend a bit of time with them and they love me and it’s great just going home to see them.
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
I just love the development of horses, getting into their brains, making them more athletic and powerful, responsive, and I’m rubbish at everything else.
I’ve never done an action show, really. On ‘Jericho,’ other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did.
Over 55% of all shots using animals in ‘The Hobbit’ are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
I first saw ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ when I was very young. Its transporting qualities were so strong that I felt like I had lived it. Only recently, with adult eyes, was I able to metabolize how tragic a tale it really is.
I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.
I have fond memories of the Grand National, but in recent years, as I have become more committed to animal welfare, I have grown increasingly uncomfortable about an event that every year results in the deaths of horses.
Horses are like people – they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-working, or awkward, difficult and lazy. If horses were people, some would be on the dole, and others would be entrepreneurs.
I don’t know why all these actors think going to a gym or riding horses or learning how to fight are the steps to becoming an actor.
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
I was riding every single day. I home-schooled because of horses.
My wife and I started a breeding program where we breed American quarter horses.
I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.
Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.
I love having horses from a young age and seeing how far they can go.
When the results weren’t coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.
Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.
Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that’s kind of it. I think it’s enough.
The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.
You’ll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin’ horse. That’s mighty tough.
If there’s one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round – they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.
I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.
People don’t buy horses to ride around any more for transportation. I just think the world changes. As a business, we have to make the proper adjustments.
Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts – all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.
Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can’t do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.
Indeed, many ancient Greek writers do treat Amazons as a tribe of men and women. They credit the tribe with innovations such as ironworking and domestication of horses. Some early vase paintings show men fighting alongside Amazons.
We ended up moving out to Texas. We live outside of Austin. We’ve got a couple horses, we’ve got three miniature donkeys, we’ve got four dogs. Miniature donkeys are very warm, loving animals.
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
As I like to say, if you want to pay attention to a horse race, put two dollars on a horse, and you’ll pay enormous attention to all 11 horses in the race.
I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
I really don’t like thoroughbreds, but I was getting bored with quarter horses.
The reason we did ‘Land of a Thousand Dances’ and ‘Gloria’ on ‘Horses’ was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn’t understand that I could write my own. I didn’t realize that you could use those chords a million times.
I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
We really don’t know which ones are better until we race each other. I’ve got good horses, but other guys have good horses, too.
I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
One day, I’ll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I’ll be on Stephanie Seymour’s ranch with her hundred horses wondering what exactly it is I’m doing there.
I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It’s your legs that do all the work. In polo, it’s the horses’ legs.
Something like riding a horse – which I’ve recently started doing – requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
I like horses!
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn’t care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don’t like people. It’s not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that’s where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
A show like the ‘Only Fool and Horses’ Christmas special got 24 million viewers, so practically everyone in the country was watching. But of course it’s a different world now, with so many channels. And those kind of figures are really difficult to achieve.
When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
I’m not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns – I love them.
You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.
We had about 400 acres, and I’m legitimately the true farm kid. We raised wheat, corn, soy beans. We hauled hay, cattle, hogs, horses.
I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I’m a Texan.
We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.
Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
I’ve had a passion for horses since I was very young – I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey – and I first began reading the racing form on the set of ‘The Partridge Family.’
It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about ‘Only Fools and Horses.’ But, as time has gone on, it seems to have been imprinted in television history, and I thought it was only right that I tried to give an accurate insight into how the show was put together.
I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord’s Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
