Wilford Brimley Quotes

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.
Wilford Brimley

Team, Events, Rope

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.
Wilford Brimley

Judge, Nothing, Start

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.
Wilford Brimley

Love, Live, Tell

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.
Wilford Brimley

Best, School, Acting

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.
Wilford Brimley

Live, Another, Secret

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.
Wilford Brimley

Love, Good, Horse

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
Wilford Brimley

Life, Around, Talking

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
Wilford Brimley

Job, While, Everybody

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.
Wilford Brimley

After, Wonderful, Land

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.
Wilford Brimley

School, Yourself, After

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.
Wilford Brimley

True, Before, Honest

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.
Wilford Brimley

Mine, Sell, Bigger

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.
Wilford Brimley

Three, Partner, Seven

I'm very proud of my heritage.
Wilford Brimley

Proud, Heritage

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.
Wilford Brimley

Enough, Chips, Near

My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.
Wilford Brimley

Friends, Dogs, Horses

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.
Wilford Brimley

Win, Lucky, Poker

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
Wilford Brimley

Family, May, After

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
Wilford Brimley

Might, Accident, Guess

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.
Wilford Brimley

Learning, Left, Room

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: September 27, 1924

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