General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
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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Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?
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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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I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I’ve been doing okay, haven’t I?
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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne
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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
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We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
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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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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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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you — either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.
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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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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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