A man is no better than he has to be.
JOHN WAYNEI 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne
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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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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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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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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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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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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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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
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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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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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Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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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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