Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
JOHN WAYNEThere’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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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Of course I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.
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Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
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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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I’ve made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.
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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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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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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 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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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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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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Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
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We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
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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.
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I don’t have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I’m not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I’m a professional.
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