Joel McCrea Quotes

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

When I was about six, I was kind of a cowboy. I'd dress up in boots, straps, hat and bandanna, and my dad would take us to the rodeo.

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.

I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider.

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

Living country is more about your values and beliefs than cowboy hats or living on a farm.

What defines a Western? I've probably seen three my whole life.

I just fell in love with the cowboy way of life.

I never really did a western western.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

I want to do a Western so bad because I want to ride horses and act. Those are two of my favorite things in the world to do. I want to do that.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

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 me ready for that.

Saddle bronc is the quintessential rodeo sport - not the chaos of bull riding or the thrashing of bareback riding. It might be harder than both.

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.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

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

I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.

The one thing I couldn't identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.