Top 88 Westerns Quotes

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

We’re not nearly as violent as the westerns.

‘3:10 to Yuma’ was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it’s a very fine line that divides these two.

I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ and films of Sam Peckinpah.

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy – put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

I love westerns. I’ve always wanted to do a western.

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word ‘genre’ altogether. A good book is a good book.

My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

Unless a Western’s made money – doesn’t matter who made the money, doesn’t matter what the subject is – if the last one didn’t make any money, you can’t make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there’s ever been. He’s quite an incredible actor.

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi… it’s all fine if the story’s compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

In the ’70s, with movies like ‘Little Big Man,’ westerns began to have a little different flavor, and I think casting people and filmmakers began to realize, ‘Hey, maybe we can get a little more authentic in terms of who we cast here.’ That kind of opened up the gates.

Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it’s empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

I think you’re going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It’s Americana, it’s part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I’m concerned.

Star Trek’ ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.

I’ve never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like – one of the best westerns I’ve seen is ‘Unforgiven.’ I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I’d say, ‘I’m still dead, Mom!’ I was Method, even then.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn’t ride.

War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women’s light reading which is derided.

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns – gasp – describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers’ films and westerns and stuff like that. That’s where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

I love Westerns!

When I used to watch Westerns, I could admire the craft, but I never really loved them; they never spoke to me. Maybe because I’m first-generation American, I’m a woman, and I just didn’t see myself reflected.

I’m not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

I’ve always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I’ve even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that ‘Gunsmoke’ wasn’t just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

I’ve thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.

I sort of got into Westerns… It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn’t go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I like fiction set in the South, and I’m a fan of literary westerns.

There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.

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.

Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we’d watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.

You don’t get to make Westerns every day.

Westerns are cool, man. I’m big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.

‘The Virginian’ has a very important romantic story line that you don’t find in a lot of Westerns… At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I’ve worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that’s okay. I used to resent that, but I don’t anymore.

I’ve always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah’s Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

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.

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.