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When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

John Wayne

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.
JOHN WAYNE

Boys Character Simple
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Decision Hats May
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Asks Firsts Mine
I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
JOHN WAYNE

Country Nobody People Person Shots
I believe humor nullifies violence.
JOHN WAYNE

Believe Violence
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
JOHN WAYNE

Dream Giving Goal
Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
JOHN WAYNE

Healthy Sex Wonderful
Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
JOHN WAYNE

Men Running Western Movie
One look that works is better than twenty lines of dialogue.
JOHN WAYNE

Lines Looks Twenties
Of course I know who you are. You’re my girl. I love you.
JOHN WAYNE

Courses Girl Love You
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 WAYNE

Bottles Mirrors Moving
General MacArthur told me, “You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.”
JOHN WAYNE

Acting Macarthur Servicemen
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.
JOHN WAYNE

Door Funny Hate Humor Inches
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
JOHN WAYNE

Creed Jobs Matter Men
It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.
JOHN WAYNE

Libertarian Liberty Trying
A man is no better than he has to be.
JOHN WAYNE

Better Country Men People Person

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