America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.
JOHN WAYNEIn 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne
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Let’s say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person’s life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I’d just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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But don’t get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I’m awfully happy there’s a thing called sex. It’s an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn’t be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn’t always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
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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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When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
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A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?
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