Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
JOHN WAYNEPaul 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
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A man ought to do what he thinks is right
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General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
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If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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The reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.
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I believe humor nullifies violence.
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I’ve made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.
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A man is no better than he has to be.
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Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded…. They shout you down and won’t let you speak if you disagree with them.
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All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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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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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne
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Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
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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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If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
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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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I don’t want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.
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There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you’re living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you’re dead as a beaver hat.
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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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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.
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
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