Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you’re stupid
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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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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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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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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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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If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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But don’t get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I’m awfully happy there’s a thing called sex. It’s an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn’t be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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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’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
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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 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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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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