I’m an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.
JOHN WAYNETrue 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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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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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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I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
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America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.
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Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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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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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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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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Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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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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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .
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