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When you stop fighting, that’s death.

John Wayne

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
JOHN WAYNE

Fighting Men Real
When you stop fighting, that’s death.
JOHN WAYNE

Country Death Fighting People Person
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Country Joy People Person Problem World
I’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
JOHN WAYNE

Children Three Wife
All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
JOHN WAYNE

Battle Men Scared
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Asks Firsts Mine
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Daughter Embraces Man Mother
I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
JOHN WAYNE

Drink Men never Trust
One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
JOHN WAYNE

Lines Looks Twenties
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 .
JOHN WAYNE

Incidents Lied Men
When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
JOHN WAYNE

Bangs Half Looks
Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
JOHN WAYNE

Art Motion Pictures
I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst’s couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
JOHN WAYNE

Hate Nuance Simple
Of course I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.
JOHN WAYNE

Courses Girl Love You
Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
JOHN WAYNE

Education Inspirational Life
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

Boys Character Simple

When you stop fighting, that’s death.

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