David Carradine 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.

One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

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.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things - something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star.

Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?'

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.

Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to make. There's something about being a cowboy.

When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.

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.