John Wayne Quotes
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I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
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Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
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Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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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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Get off your horse and drink your milk.
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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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I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.
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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.
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Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
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I've loved reading all my life.
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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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I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.
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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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All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
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I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.
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My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
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Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
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When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
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We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!
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I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.
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If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier.
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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.