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.
JOHN WAYNEI’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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you’re stupid
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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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But don’t get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I’m awfully happy there’s a thing called sex. It’s an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn’t be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
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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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A man is no better than he has to be.
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Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded…. They shout you down and won’t let you speak if you disagree with them.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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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 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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General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
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Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
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