Quotes About Cowboys

What part of a man is it best to shoot at?" asked Sean. "His horse," said Jake.

People are leaving the bar right and left—probably afraid of these wild and woolly cowboys from Montana

Old Western Trail.

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

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

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

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

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 knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em.

I love Westerns!

I grew up watching Westerns.

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn't much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I'd call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we'd restage the Battle of the Alamo.

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.

The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.

The letter should have been a thousand pages long. It should have talked about the end of evolutionary chains and the loss of free range, about cowboys struggling with the corners of the wire, like the corn husks of winter.

I hate cowboys. There's nothing I can do to them a horse has not done

Cowboys are the worst. Not much I can do to them that a horse already hasn't. - Reacher