Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott
Samuel Pack "Sam" Elliottis an American actor. His rangy physique, thick horseshoe moustache, deep, resonant voice, and Western drawl led to frequent casting as cowboys and ranchers. His other credits over the years have included playing Marvel Comics characters General Ross in Hulk, The Caretaker in Ghost Riderand "The Stranger" in The Big Lebowski. To date, his most acclaimed feature film role is that of Karl in Grandma, for which he was nominated for a CFCA Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 August 1944
CitySacramento, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.
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 think I'd do more of this guy.
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
She's an R&B singer, and she got back to singing and doing nice, pretty songs.
It's close-quarter, hand-to-hand combat in the dark. If this guy was a tunnel rat and lived through that and excelled at it, it pretty much (indicated) what kind of character he was.
The guy is a lawyer by trade who operates outside the law. It's an easy thing to identify with for me.
I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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.
I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.