Keith Carradine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside.
-- Keith Carradine
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

#Men #Killers #West
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

#Nice #Hard Work #Atmosphere
I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.
-- Keith Carradine

#Love #Love Is #Bars
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

#Nice #Hot #Actors
Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.
-- Keith Carradine

#Book #Years #Fans
The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
-- Keith Carradine

#Genre #Familiar #Western
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
-- Keith Carradine

#Thinking #Genre #Western
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

#Thinking #Years #Age
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

#Roles #Tests #Way
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

#Night #Guy #Emperor
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

#Dad #Father #School
[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

#People #Would Be #Way
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

#Cowboy #Urban Legends #Bills
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

#Badass #Mean #Bills
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

#Guy #Down And #Finishing
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

#Space #Hook #Aliens
You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.
-- Keith Carradine

#Guy #Wicked #Sense Of Humor
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

#Girl #Ideas #Guy
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

#Girl #Mean #Kids
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

#Thinking #People #Rumor
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

#Four #Bills #Stuff
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

#Hair #Atlanta #Play
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

#Personality #Actors #Helping

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