When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
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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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne
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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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When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst’s couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
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Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you’re stupid
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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 play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I’ve been doing okay, haven’t I?
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Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
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I 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.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
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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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