I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
JOHN WAYNEMost 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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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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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 never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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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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If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
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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’ve made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.
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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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You don’t have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day’s work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.
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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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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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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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I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
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