John Wayne Quotes
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Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.
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When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.
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Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!
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Out here a man settles his own problems.
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Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
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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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Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
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Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.
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Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid
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Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
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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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Cowboys, just like the word says.
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The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.
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True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
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Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.
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I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.
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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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Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.
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The West - the very words go straight to that place of the heart where Americans feel the spirit of pride in their western heritage - the triumph of personal courage over any obstacle, whether nature or man.
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I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
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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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It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.
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If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."
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You're short on ears and long on mouth.
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Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!
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A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
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Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.
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