Westerns Quotes

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.

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.

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.