We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.
I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.
99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.
I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.
Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško čovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja.
There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.
To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.
