I’m an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.
JOHN WAYNEThe reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.
More John Wayne Quotes
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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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True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
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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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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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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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General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
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All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.
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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 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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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .
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Contrary to what people think, I’m no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
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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 play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I’ve been doing okay, haven’t I?
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