I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.
If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to make. There's something about being a cowboy.
The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.
I just fell in love with the cowboy way of life.
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.