Texan Quotes

"I love working with the dedicated people at this theater. They are pursuing this for truth and beauty, not just as a springboard to the next job. Before I decided to be an actor, I wanted to be a jockey, but then I realized I wanted to be more than a Texan cowboy." - Von Dohlen, interviewed by Travis Michael Holder, June 25th, 2004

It all goes back to (Joel Schumacher). I wouldn`t have done Phone Booth (2002) without him. I wouldn`t be doing Hart`s War (2002). I probably wouldn`t have done American Outlaws (2001) if he hadn`t picked me out of obscurity. I`ve worked, but not at the level or people I`m working with now if he hadn`t taken a chance on an Irish kid playing a Texan.

(on doing the Texan accent for Secondhand Lions (2003)) I had a great dialect coach and he told me there`s always one moment when you get something. He said, "Do your Texan accent for me," when I had learned it from a tape. He said, "It`s too English!". I said, "Why?". He said, "Each word stands up like soldiers standing to attention next to each other. The way they talk in Texas, they`re so lazy they sort of lean on each word". And I could just picture all these words leaning over each other, and that`s when I got it.

I`m not anti-American. I`ve lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

Actually, I--this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I`m talking about--when I`m talking about myself, and when he`s talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I`m a Texan.

If you ain`t Texan, I ain`t got time for you.

Some of these men served three years after slavery. It takes a real Texan to stand up to adversity, bigotry and hatred to represent a state that held you in slavery. They should be honored appropriately.