Outlaw Quotes

"Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in The Outlaw (1943). And he never knew. He wasn`t going to take my clothes off to check if I had it on. I just told him I did".

"They held up The Outlaw (1943) for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years".

But, you know, there`s still an argument, there`s still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock `n` roll sensibility.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He`s got to ride that nag till it drops.

(on leaving Oklahoma for Hollywood, where he became a horse wrangler for Howard Hawks on The Outlaw (1943)) I`d been making a dollar a day as a cowboy, and my first check in Hollywood was for $300. After that, you couldn`t have driven me back to Oklahoma with a club.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won`t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

It can be. It can be crazier. It`s not popular to be an outlaw anymore, so if you get into some trouble now you really get into trouble. In the old days you could pretty much walk into anywhere in the states with a joint in your mouth and a copper would say, `Oh, you`re a rock star.` Now, going from state to state, if you get caught with a valium in your pocket, you go to jail overnight. It`s a little bit different but just as much fun.

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

Gene and I just fell in love with the stories of these characters and the romance of these super-powered outlaw stations,

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.