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 WAYNEI 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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A man is no better than he has to be.
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Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
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I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
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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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All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
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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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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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Paul 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.
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General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
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