5 John Wayne Quotes

#1. This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

George V. Higgins

#2. We're burnin' daylight.

John Wayne

#3. 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.

John Wayne

#4. I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

Phil Hartman

#5. Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

John Wayne

#6. Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.

John Wayne

#7. Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.

Bill Paxton

#8. Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.

John Wayne

#9. I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

John Wayne

#10. In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

Karolyn Grimes

#11. Get off your butt and join the Marines!

John Wayne

#12. Get off your horse and drink your milk.

John Wayne

#13. A fallow mind is a field of discontent.

John H. Cunningham

#14. Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

John Wayne

#15. My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

Hank Williams Jr.

#16. Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

John Wayne

#17. I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

John Wayne

#18. Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

John Wayne

#19. I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

Matthew Perry

#20. John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.

Vinnie Jones

#21. I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

Karl Marlantes

#22. You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. When you stop fighting, that's death.

John Wayne

#24. John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

Elizabeth Taylor

#25. John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

Tab Hunter

#26. Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.

John Wayne

#27. A lot of people ... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like ... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington ... people who are different, who are larger than life.

Walter Mosley

#28. 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.

John Wayne

#29. Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!

John Wayne

#30. 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.

John Wayne