His Father
While he feels sad about his father’s death, a lot of his persona stems from his father. He told NPR, “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.”
Before The Voice
It should be known that Sam Elliott didn’t always have that deep voice that we all love. In the same NPR interview, he said, “It came with age. It just kept going down the older I got—can’t imagine it’s going to go much further.”