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" To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. "

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The Right Thing

" You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. "

" Well, I had a wonderful career. "

" Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. "

" I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country. "

" Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.' "

" I had a wonderful career. "

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" I'm better than Olivier. "

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

" Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife. "

" My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher. "

" A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies. "

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" Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne. "

" Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that. "

" Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's. "

" Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. "

" Everybody likes to win. "

" Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films. "