The reason there are so many stupid people is because it’s illegal to kill them.
JOHN WAYNEYou have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
More John Wayne Quotes
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Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
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Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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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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One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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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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If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’
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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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When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.
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I never trust a man that doesn’t drink.
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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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A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
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Out here, due process is a bullet.
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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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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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Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
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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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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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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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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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I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist’s couch.
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True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
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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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Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?
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