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 Harrison Coburn III" was an United States/American actor. He was featured in more than 70 films and made 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor/Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction (film)/Affliction.
A capable, rough-hewn leading man, his toothy grin and lanky body made him a perfect tough guy in numerous leading and supporting roles in Western (genre)/westerns and action films, such as The Magnificent Seven, Hell Is for Heroes (film)/Hell Is for Heroes, The Great Escape (film)/The Great Escape, Our Man Flint, In Like Flint, Duck, You Sucker!, and Cross of Iron.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s Coburn cultivated an image synonymous with "cool", and along with such contemporaries as Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson became one of the prominent "tough-guy" actors of his day.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous actors! More James Coburn on Wikipedia.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.
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."
The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.
I have been meeting with the county to try and work something out. They are trying to get a handle on what they would charge us.
My, my, my ... I've been doing this work for over half my life and I finally got one right, ... Some (movies) you do for money, some you do for love. This is a love child.
[James Coburn made an appearance at the Miramax celebration --] The partying begins, for a few hours, and then we're going home to bed, ... Affliction.
[David Thomson, the author of] The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, ... a modern rarity: an actor who projects lazy, humorous sexuality. ... He has made a variety of flawed, pleasurable films, the merits of which invariably depend on his laconic presence.
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.
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