John Wayne

Notable Quotes



Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

From John Wayne

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

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If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

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I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

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In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

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Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

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All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

From John Wayne

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