Keith Carradine Quotes

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.

When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.

Stetsons are the ultimate in cowboy headwear.

Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.

My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There's no end to the tales of his exploits.

It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.

Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.