Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's….

I'm a man without a corporation..

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes..

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 ….

Way, way, way back I played a little bit, but I am definitely not a golfer. You know, it just takes too much time anyway during the course of the day..

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it..

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

The beginning and the end of the tango is the walk..

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 hir….

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - act….

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 r….

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding..

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking..

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie..

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….

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

Everybody likes to win..

If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every….

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities..

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad..

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost..