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.
JOHN WAYNEI play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I’ve been doing okay, haven’t I?
More John Wayne Quotes
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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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A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
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Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
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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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I’ve had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don’t understand women
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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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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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Men forget everything; women remember everything.
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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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Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .
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America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.
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I don’t have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I’m not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I’m a professional.
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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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I’ve made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.
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