Out here, due process is a bullet.
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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If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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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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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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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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I believe humor nullifies violence.
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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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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.
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I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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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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I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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