Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNENobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
More John Wayne Quotes
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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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The reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.
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When you stop fighting, that’s death.
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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’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
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I would like to be remembered, well… the Mexicans have a phrase, ‘Feo fuerte y formal’. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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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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A man ought to do what he thinks is right
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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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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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courage is being scared to death – and saddling up anyway” “A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life
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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
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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.
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A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
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When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
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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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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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I believe humor nullifies violence.
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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
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I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
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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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