John Wayne Movies Quotes

#1. Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

J. A. Spender

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. He liked his souls devout. No Unitarians for him.

Marie Sexton

#5. A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.

Elizabeth Taylor

#6. Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

John Wayne

#7. With apologies to Judy Garland and Cole Porter, all the world does NOT love a clown. John Wayne Gacy might have been the final nail in the coffin in terms of anyone associating clowns with funny (if a bunch of clowns die, do they all fit into one coffin?)

Christopher Lombardo

#8. I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.

Owen Wilson

#9. Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

John Wayne

#10. Never do for someone what they can do for themselves.

Saul Alinsky

#11. Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.

Pim Fortuyn

#12. That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

Connie Willis

#13. It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Michael Kinsley

#14. My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

John Wayne

#15. No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

Frankie Avalon

#16. When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Dennis Farina

#17. I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

Rob Zombie

#18. Love John Wayne. I love his cowboy movies especially, which makes sense I guess. Rio Bravo may be my favorite.

Chris Kyle

#19. I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.

Jackie Chan

#20. The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'

Conan O'Brien

#21. The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that.

Steve Maraboli

#22. My wife had her drivers' test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

Rodney Dangerfield

#23. The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.

Steve McQueen

#24. In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

Ricky Schroder

#25. 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.

John Wayne