James Coburn Quotes (9 Quotes)

James Coburn made an appearance at the Miramax celebration -- The partying begins, for a few hours, and then we're going home to bed, ... Affliction.

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

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.

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

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.

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."

David Thomson, the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, ... a modern rarity an actor who projects lazy, humorous sexuality. ... He has made a variety of flawed, pleasurable films, the merits of which invariably depend on his laconic presence.

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.