Top 100 John Wayne Quotes
#1. 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 say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.
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#2. My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.
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#3. Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
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#4. When you stop fighting, that's death.
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#5. Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.
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#6. I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.
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#7. 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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#8. Get off your horse and drink your milk.
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#9. Get off your butt and join the Marines!
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#10. I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
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#11. Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.
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#12. Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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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#18. Never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness.
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#19. Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
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#20. 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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#21. 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.
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#22. 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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#23. If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
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#24. Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.
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#25. Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
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#26. I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
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#31. Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.
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#32. 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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#33. Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
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#34. Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
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#35. 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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#36. Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.
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#37. 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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#38. I don't have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I'm not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I'm a professional.
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#39. Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. "Get out" and "I never want to see you again" might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, "I love you ... I want to marry you ... I want to have your children." Sometimes they leave skid marks.
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#40. Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
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#41. I believe humor nullifies violence.
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#42. A man ought to do what he thinks is right
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#43. Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
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#44. 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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#45. True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
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#46. A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
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#47. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
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#48. Out here, due process is a bullet.
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#49. 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 JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I'm one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him.
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#51. I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women
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#52. Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?
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#53. I never trust a man that doesn't drink.
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#54. Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!
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#55. We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.
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#56. I never killed a man I didn't have to.
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#57. My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.
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#58. 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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#59. A man's got to do what a man's got to do.
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#60. Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view ...
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#61. Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.
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#62. But don't get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I'm awfully happy there's a thing called sex. It's an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn't be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.
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#63. 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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#64. The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.
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#65. My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
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#66. This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.
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#67. Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
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#68. In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
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#69. Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.
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#70. A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
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#71. The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them.
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#72. When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
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#73. I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
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#74. Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of.
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#75. I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
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#76. My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
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#77. Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
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#78. The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.
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#79. A man is no better than he has to be.
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#80. I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply:
men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty,
never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.
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#81. I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
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#82. It's getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous.
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#83. When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.
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#84. I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.
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#85. Drop that or I'll blow ya straight to Jesus.
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#86. Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.
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#87. 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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#88. Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.
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#89. Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.
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#90. Life is hard; It's even harder if you're stupid.
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#91. Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.
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#92. I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?
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#93. There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.
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#94. I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.
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#95. 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
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#96. All men hate to hear "We need to talk about our relationship." These seven words strike fear in the heart of even General Schwartzkopf.
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#97. You're short on ears and long on mouth.
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#98. 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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#99. Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .
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