Cowboy Quotes - Page 3

• A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

  Sonny Liston

  People, Boxing, Guy

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• A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

  Beryl Markham

  Horse, Emotional, Lovely

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

  Josh Holloway

  Fun, Character, Emotional

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• Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

  Kelly Lynch

  Hair, Numbers, Film

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• Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

  Alex Cox

  Hate, Annoyed, One Day

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• Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

  Larry McMurtry

  Gay, Want

  "Despite Surprises, Oscars Wasn't a Big Ratings Success". Oscar's Speech, www.npr.org. March 6, 2006.

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• Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

  Brion James

  Play, California, Agriculture

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• Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Gun, Boys, Ghouls

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• Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.

  Bruce Jay Friedman

  Men, Understanding, Coaching

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• I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, Careers, Goal

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• I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

  John Sayles

  Horse, Fall, Typewriters

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• I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

  Bob Hayes

  Sports, Teamwork, Blessed

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• Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas.

  Christina Milian

  Texas, Littles, Intimidating

  "Christina Milian talks Be Cool!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. February 24, 2005.

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• I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.

  John Hurt

  Party, Acting, Way

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

  Michael Biehn

  Real, Hate, Hats

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• The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Witty, Sunshine, Two

  "Fictional character: Ratso Rizzo". "Midnight Cowboy", www.imdb.com. 1969.

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• Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

  Steve Earle

  Coffee, Boots, World

  "Q&A: Earle takes songwriting break to honor Van Zandt". Interview with Robert Levine, www.reuters.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.

  Tim McGraw

  Play, Want, Scripts

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• I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

  Barry Watson

  Hair, Long, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

  Tanya Tucker

  Not Interested, Titans, Ifs

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• Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

  Warren Buffett

  Needs, Rodeo, Investment

  "Retirement a la Warren Buffett" by Paul A. Merriman, www.marketwatch.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I never miss a good chance to shut up

  James Patterson

  Silence, Missing, Chance

  James Patterson (2017). “Along Came a Spider: (Alex Cross 1)”, p.237, Random House

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• I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.

  Steve Kanaly

  Horse, Real, Ideas

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• I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

  Dick York

  New York, Bus Stops, Opposites

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