Clint Walker Quotations

There are certain things you have to know about acting.

While I was working in Las Vegas, there was a lot of picture people who approached me and said I should try the movies. At first I thought it was a pretty silly way to make a living.

Sinatra is kind of an enigma. If he's your friend, he's your friend.

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.

On the same show I cut my foot with an ax, but I had to go through with the scene, because in this business you have to move on. You can watch the scene, and you will never know anything happened.

On occasion anyone who does any amount of this is going to get hit, or you are going to hit somebody.

I was going to take my scooter, pack a few clothes and food, and scooter all the way down to California.

Cecil B. DeMille was a very demanding man. But he was demanding on himself as well.

But as luck would have it, Warner Bros. saw my screen test, put me under contract, and I wound up making Cheyenne.

I did a thing called Cry of the Wolf where I got very good reviews.

Funny thing, but when I first got to England, I felt very much at home there.

I always liked going to the movies, but my big problem was that I didn't have much time to see that many movies.

I was actually born in Hartford, a little Mississippi River town and raised in nearby Alton.

When I joined the Merchant Marine, I went to Catalina for Maritime training. That's how I became acquainted with California.

Those fellows who ran the studios had a commitment to making good films.

Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation.

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

I think you always have regrets.

That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.

When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure.

Cooper would always kid me about my hats. He'd tell me I should get a bigger hat.

I started to figure out what was the best thing I had to offer. I decided on my size.

I've always had the greatest respect for Chuck Heston. He's not only a very fine actor, he's a very good human being.

People are surprised when I tell them that I didn't play football in high school with my size and strength.

Also, I think more and more people are yearning to get out of the big cities, have a garden, and maybe go hunting or fishing.

It was fun. I didn't think the dogs could go that fast.

It's a funny thing about westerns. For a while nobody would do a western.

The night before, I slept on the couch. If I had (done that) last night, I'd be dead.

Then later on there was Randolph Scott and Gary Cooper whom I met many times.

Supposedly they say that the R-rating makes money. But they are still making good movies without having to resort to that.

They became tv oriented, and tv became a medium where you did a whole lot more with a whole lot less, and you did it faster.

I didn't finish high school. I wound up working for a big paper mill. Then I went to work loading box cars and glass ware.

I'd go to the carnivals and circuses and get various jobs. I'd either carry water, set up milk bottles, or bring back the baseballs.

I began having problems with Warner Bros. They were letting other people do films, and I wasn't doing many, so I walked out for a while.

You can't put people who did tv in the same category, however, because they didn't get the chance to do the same things as those who did feature films.