Sam Elliott

Used his own Winchester 1894 rifle in Obrigado por Fumar (2005).
Shares birthday with "Smokey Bear," and Sam Elliott has been the voice of "Smokey Bear" since 2008.
Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2015 (inaugural class) in the category Film & Television.
To date, he is the first (and only) actor to be nominated for an Emmy for guest-performing on Frango Robô (2005).
Samuel Pack Elliott was born in Sacramento, California, to Glynn Mamie (Sparks), a physical training instructor who taught at a high school, and Henry Nelson Elliott, who worked for the Department of the Interior as a predator control specialist. His parents were both born in Texas. Sam is mainly of English and Scottish descent.

[in the December 1976 issue of "Playgirl"] I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, "Boy, would I love to do that over."
I was really happy that Ang Lee won the Best Director award, I got to know him very well on Hulk (2003). But I'm not the O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain (2005) crowd, what can I tell ya. I'm more of a purist. But at the same time, it's a new day.
I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do. You can work for money, do a lot of whatever comes your way and not have any kind of a yardstick to measure quality by, and people, you know you'll make a lot of money if you're lucky, and people will get fed up and sick of seeing you and that's it onto the next one. - On his career choices.