Gene Autry Quotes

(in a conversation with director Frank McDonald about his career) I`m not a good actor, a good rider or a particularly good singer, but they seem to like what I do, so I`ll keep on doing it as long as they want.

(on the music industry) It occurs to me that music, with the possible exception of riding a bull, is the most uncertain way to make a living I know. In either case you can get bucked off, thrown, stepped on, trampled--if you get on at all. At best, it is a short and bumpy ride.

In my day, most people thought dance hall girls actually danced.

(on Errol Flynn) He spent more time on a bar stool, or in court, or in the headlines, or in bed, than anyone I knew.

(on the difference between modern westerns and the westerns made during his day) I could never have played scenes like where The Sundance Kid kicks the guy in the nuts (in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)) or anything like Clint Eastwood does.

(about his "image" as a cowboy star) I couldn`t shoot a man in the back. I couldn`t take a drink at a bar. They would have run me out of town.

I think the He-men in the movies belong in the Army, Marine, Navy or Air Corps. All of these He-men in the movies realize that right now is the time to get into the service. Every movie cowboy ought to devote time to the Army winning, or to helping win, until the war is over - the same as any other American citizen. The Army needs all the young men it can get, and if I can set a good example for the young men I`ll be mighty proud. (1942)

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,

You Are My Sunshine.

things that give you standing in the community.

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