You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
JOHN WAYNEI 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.
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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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courage is being scared to death – and saddling up anyway” “A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life
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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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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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Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
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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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Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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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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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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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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True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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