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In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right – that’s me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I’ve been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

John Wayne

A man ought to do what he thinks is right
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Men Ought Thinking
Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
JOHN WAYNE

Half Horse Mets
I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up this drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror.
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Bottles Mirrors Moving
Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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Healthy Sex Wonderful
Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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Grief Grieving Journey
One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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Lines Looks Twenties
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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Courage Day Fear Veterans
Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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Art Motion Pictures
I don’t have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I’m not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I’m a professional.
JOHN WAYNE

Morning Pride Thinking
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.
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Leadership Men Sports
Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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Couches Cowboy Saws
Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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Mind Names People
When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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Country Death Fighting People Person
Contrary to what people think, I’m no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
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People Politician Thinking
When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
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Bangs Half Looks
Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
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Door Funny Hate Humor Inches

In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right – that’s me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I’ve been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

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In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right – that’s me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I’ve been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

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