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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

John Wayne

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.
JOHN WAYNE

Bottles Mirrors Moving
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?
JOHN WAYNE

Flags Patriotic Wave
Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
JOHN WAYNE

Men Running Western Movie
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 WAYNE

Clothes Horse Legs Tough
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
Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
JOHN WAYNE

Down Knocked Life More Time
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
One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
JOHN WAYNE

Lines Looks Twenties
Men forget everything; women remember everything.
JOHN WAYNE

Funny Humor Sports
Of course I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.
JOHN WAYNE

Courses Girl Love You
All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
JOHN WAYNE

Battle Men Scared
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
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Disappointed Uncomfortable Want
General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
JOHN WAYNE

Acting Macarthur Servicemen
Contrary to what people think, I’m no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
JOHN WAYNE

People Politician Thinking

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