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.
JOHN WAYNEYou 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.
More John Wayne Quotes
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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
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Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.
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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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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 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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We brought nothing into this world and it’s certain we can carry nothing out.
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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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All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
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I’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.
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Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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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 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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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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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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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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