It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.
JOHN WAYNEI’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
More John Wayne Quotes
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I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
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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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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.
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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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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 would like to be remembered, well… the Mexicans have a phrase, ‘Feo fuerte y formal’. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
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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.
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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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We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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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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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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A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
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