Quotes by Keith Carradine - Page 1

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Genre
Thinking
Western
Uniquely
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Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Book
Fans
Years
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The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Familiar
Genre
Genre Is
Western
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I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Love
Bars
Love Is
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But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Prefer
Outdoors
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Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Cash
Film
Firsts
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I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Glue
Heat
Mustache
Me Day Every Day
Grown
Saves
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You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Guy
Sense Of Humor
Wicked
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[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Comedy
Kind
Motorcycle
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One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Actors
Helping
Personality
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I think people start rumors because it creates interest and it makes people look at things and become more interested in what they're looking at.
Keith Carradine / Actor
People
Rumor
Thinking
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I wouldn't call it ["Wild Bill Hickok"] an urban legend, but I guess I'd call it a rural legend that the cowboy was always soft-spoken, mild-spoken, well-mannered.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Bills
Cowboy
Urban Legends
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He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Men
Controversy
Killers
West
Foremost
Virtually
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And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Atmosphere
Hard Work
Nice
Love Work Hard Work
Love Work Day
Rural
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You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Actors
Hot
Nice
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One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Opportunity
Actors
Life Is
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When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Guns
Effect
Just Walking
Lend
Tends
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This ["Cowboys & Aliens"] was an occasion where a studio was willing to spend a lot of money to make a film set in that time and place, but the hook was that they were also going to have aliens from outer space!
Keith Carradine / Actor
Space
Aliens
Hook
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Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff, and he had some great ideas about how to do it. It was a delight to work with him in that regard.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Ideas
Mean
Way
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I think that the film ["Jim Younger"] still resonates, because there's just something that you can't fake about those kinds of relationships. When you see James and Stacy Keach on the screen together, they're brothers!
Keith Carradine / Actor
Brother
Fake
Thinking
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I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Age
Thinking
Years
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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!
Keith Carradine / Actor
Bills
Four
Stuff
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I decided, "Well, I'll be a forest ranger!" Because I thought, "I'll get to go out in the woods, I'll be in the forest, and I can sit in a tower and watch for forest fires and play my guitar. That's what I want to do!" Well, I was an idiot, of course.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Fire
Guitar
Play
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[David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the movies began to talk, you had audiences that would be offended by certain things, and there was a cleaning-up of the way people spoke."
Keith Carradine / Actor
People
Way
Would Be
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I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these National Guard weekend warriors who wander into a world about which they know nothing and then wind up wreaking havoc on themselves.
Keith Carradine / Actor
War
Mean
Weekend
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[Mel Gibson] had just directed The Passion [Of The Christ], and it had just been released as we started production on Complete Savages. But I have to say, nobody ever talked about it, and he never brought any of that to work. He was just delightful, and I had a great time.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Christ
Passion
Savages
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I was actually filming in Atlanta when I got a call from Walter Hill saying, "Well, it could be your turn to play Hickok." I said, "Oh, well, great!" He said, "What's your hair look like?" I said, "Well, it's short, Walter, but... I've still got that wig!" . He said, "Well, bring it!"
Keith Carradine / Actor
Atlanta
Hair
Play
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Lee Marvin was just the best. Just the best. And that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until he died. And the same with Ernie Borgnine. You know, I went up there and did that movie [Emperor Of The North] with those guys, and I actually was with Ernie the night that he died.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Emperor
Guy
Night
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So we went off and made this movie ["Jim Younger"], and I've gotta tell ya, it's as much fun as I've ever had making a movie. It was kind of like adult summer camp. We put on this Western gear, strapped on our six-shooters, and went out and played cowboy all day! It wasn't an easy shoot.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Cowboy
Fun
Summer
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I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Badass
Bills
Mean
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There were rumors that flew about the two of us, which were complete poppycock. There was never any romance between Madonna and myself. I mean, we had a moment where we're kissing in that video [Material Girl], but she at the time was with Sean Penn, and I was married with two kids, so there was no funny business there.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Girl
Kids
Mean
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When I was in high school... I loved the outdoors, and I was introduced to wilderness camping. I was in a little prep school - a boarding school in southern California, in Ojai - and when I was in this school, they had a camping program, and there would be regular trips: hikes into the mountains, the Sierras, the Sespe River Valley, and different places.
Keith Carradine / Actor
California
Rivers
School
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I was accepted to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which is a terrific Aggie school, and they had a great forestry program. But when I saw the syllabus and realized what I was going to actually have to be studying, there was a lot of science! If you want a degree in forestry, it's basically a science degree. And I just thought, "No, no, no, wait a second. Never mind!"
Keith Carradine / Actor
Mind
School
Waiting
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That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in a movie in the conventional way: The role was there, I auditioned, I auditioned again, and then I actually did a full-fledged screen test, which they shot on a soundstage on the lot at 20th Century Fox. They put up a set, and Robert Aldrich actually directed me in this screen test.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Roles
Tests
Way
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I guess at that moment in time I had a certain... presence? A certain level of presence in the industry. But that was at Madonna's request. There was a concept for the video ["Material Girl"], and the idea was that it was kind of a Howard Hughes and Marilyn Monroe sort of idea, that there was this guy behind the scenes making it all happen. And she saw me as that guy, so she asked for me.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Girl
Guy
Ideas
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My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done 'Hair' in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.
Keith Carradine / Actor
New York
Hair
Successful
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I think it [Trouble In Mind] was the only time Divine didn't appear in drag, or certainly one of the few times, anyway. Alan created a time and place that was no time and no place, so it was not identifiable with any particular period or any particular city or any particular country, for that matter. I mean, everybody spoke English, but that was about it. So you couldn't pigeonhole that film.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Country
Mean
Thinking
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I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."
Keith Carradine / Actor
Dad
Father
School
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I'd met Harrison Ford before, but he was just finishing a meet with Jon Favreau and the other producers on the film, and we said "hello" as he walked out and I walked in and sat down and had this meeting with those guys. They basically described what they were looking for, and they thought that I brought a certain amount of authenticity to the genre, and would I want to take part? And I said, "Absolutely! I'd love to!"
Keith Carradine / Actor
Down And
Finishing
Guy
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I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Kings
Couple
Years
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Lee Marvin was there at the same time, and I knew obviously it was his movie [Emperor Of The North], and Ernie Borgnine was playing the other part in the movie.I met Marvin there at wardrobe, and he said, "What are you doing for lunch?" I said, "Nothing." He said, "C'mon with me!" And he took me to the commissary. I walked into the commissary with Lee Marvin at 20th Century Fox, and he introduced me to people. He said, "This's Keith Carradine. We're doin' this movie together." He was so cool. I mean, my God.
Keith Carradine / Actor
Lunch
Mean
People
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