Saddles Quotes

On his late Blazing Saddles (1974) star, Cleavon Little: "My rule was not to eat with actors, but I enjoyed him so much that I begged him to eat with me."

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

(From his character Taggart in Blazing Saddles (1974)): "What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?!"

I think he`s really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced. These crises are such a heavy burden, and they are so self-inflicted, except for the court vacancies, that if he is not very careful and tries to put across someone who is seen as an ultraconservative, he is going to touch off a conflagration in the Senate.

I think he`s really undermined his credibility at this point, and it really saddles him with the kind of problems that Johnson and Nixon faced.

No one would wish to be remembered for things like "Two-Man Submarine" or "Saddles and Sagebrush", which were typical of the kind of pictures I did. The part in "Detour" seemed like the opportunity every actress longs for. When I first read the script by Martin Goldsmith I knew that I was going to be part of something very exciting.