James Coburn Quotations

I have been meeting with the county to try and work something out. They are trying to get a handle on what they would charge us.

My, my, my ... I've been doing this work for over half my life and I finally got one right, ... Some (movies) you do for money, some you do for love. This is a love child.

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

Personality. Gotta have some kind of personality and you don't wear your personality on your body. It's gotta come from someplace.

This is a totally unfunded mandate. Counties were eligible for grant money, but everyone else is left out in the cold.

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular'.

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.

Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.