RohanAll the credit goes to dad
Sam Elliott only spent 18 years of his life with his father, he gives all the credit of his tough guy attitude to his father. In an interview with NPR, Elliott said “And I was with my dad and my – and his peers, who were all men’s men and outdoorsmen. All had incredible work ethics and were all good men. And they were really the ones I think that I learned what kind of a man I wanted to be when I grew up.”
Voice changed with time
Sam Elliott says he didn’t have that kind of voice tone earlier. When asked about his voice, in an interview NPR, he said “No, no, no. It came with age. It just kept going down the older I got – can’t imagine it’s going to go much further.”
A very “Picky” Elliott
Due to the nature of the work, sometimes actors act on those productions they do not want. However, this was not true for Sam. According to IMDB, Sam said “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.”
The Big Lebowski
Albeit it was not a big role, Sam Elliott’s role in “The Big Lebowski” is one of the famous. Coen brothers wrote the role keeping Saam in mind. Elliott was ecstatic to originally receive the script. “As I opened up and read, you know – a couple of pages in, and it’s talking about this voice-over. And it said literally on the page; the voice-over sounded not unlike Sam Elliott,” Elliott said in an interview with NPR. “And then later on when he appears in the bowling alley, here’s this guy dressed like a drugstore cowboy, looking not unlike Sam Elliott. So I guess they wrote it for me. They certainly wrote it with me in mind.”
Daughter Threatens To Kill Katharine
In 2011, the Elliott family got into a scandal. Katharine filed a case on her daughter Cleo after she stabbed her with scissors. The court document revealed that Cleo allegedly said to her mother “I want to kill you.”
Successful Career and Marriage
Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross are not only famous for their successful career but also for their successful marriage (of over 30 plus years). Elliott couldn’t be happier about it. “The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it’s an embarrassment of riches that I’ve got both,” Elliott said in an interview with NPR.