James Coburn Quotes

#1. Let's see, he had told me one night at our hotel's bar, I've been beaten to death with brass knuckles by Robert Mitchum, knifed in the back by Ernest Borgnine, shot in the head by Frank Sinatra, strangled by James Coburn,

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#2. I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

Robert Vaughn

#3. You ever have that happen where you meet someone and just
clash? We were like a gravel and cream sandwhich."
"That is the weirdest thing you have ever said. I suppose you were the cream?" "Of course I was the cream. Sha."
Eve Rosser, The Drama Queen's Last Dance (Rachel Caine)

P.C. Cast

#4. Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

Shana Alexander

#5. In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive. Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need.

Helen Steiner Rice

#6. There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

James Coburn

#7. My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

Bruno Mars

#8. First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

James Coburn

#9. Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'

James Coburn

#10. The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.

Gordon Korman

#11. Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.

James Coburn

#12. You wake up one day and realise that your struggles and battles are your own and no one else s. And there is no one more capable to fight all the odds and enemies except you and you alone!

Tina Sequeira

#13. It wont be possible to be famouse without courage.

Bozorgmehr

#14. If you become a guy who always knows everything and explains it to others all the time, you just get called an idiot.

Christian Grobmeier

#15. Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.

James Coburn

#16. Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They're merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.

Felix Alexander

#17. The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

James Coburn

#18. It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors ... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.

James Coburn

#19. It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

James Coburn