John Wayne Quotes

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• When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
• I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
• 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…
• Men forget everything; women remember everything.
• 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.
• That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
• General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."
• I believe humor nullifies violence.
• When you stop fighting, that's death.
• Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a…
• 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…
• If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.
• TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!
• You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to…
• The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like…
• 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.
• 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…
• I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.
• Hell, the truth  is that I was named after a dog!
• Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

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