"I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott." (Quoted in the December 1976 isue of "Playgirl.") "I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors." "I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'" "I was really happy that Ang Lee won the Best Director award, I got to know him very well on Hulk. But I'm not the Brokeback Mountain crowd, what can I tell ya. I'm more of a purist. But at the same time, it's a new day."