Top 100 Quotes About John Wayne
#1. 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
#2. 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.
John Wayne
#3. 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
#4. Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!
John Wayne
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
John Wayne
#8. John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
Tab Hunter
#9. John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.
Elizabeth Taylor
#10. When you stop fighting, that's death.
John Wayne
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. John Wayne never ever disappointed his fans, because he was a cowboy.
Vinnie Jones
#14. 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
#15. Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.
John Wayne
#16. I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.
John Wayne
#19. Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
John Wayne
#21. Get off your horse and drink your milk.
John Wayne
#22. Get off your butt and join the Marines!
John Wayne
#23. 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
#24. I never shot nobody I didnt have to.
John Wayne
#25. Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.
John Wayne
#26. 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
#27. Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.
John Wayne
#28. Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
John Wayne
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
John Wayne
#32. John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.
Jill Haworth
#33. His Charles Bronson-like demeanour together with his Clint Eastwood stare and his John Wayne swagger, created from a diet of westerns and Eighties TV mixed with a lifetime of planning, organising, managing, and leading, were now gelled together with the battle-hardened soldier he had become.
Connor Fitzgerald
#34. 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.
John Wayne
#35. 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.
John Wayne
#36. Never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness.
John Wayne
#37. The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them ... Hell, if you could see my schedule, my work schedule, you knew damn well that I was never out there.
John Wayne Gacy
#38. America is the land of freedom and that's the way I enjoy living.
John Wayne
#39. Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.
John Wayne
#40. If Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet the legal test of insanity, God help the one that does meet it. I mean, it - it has to really be something. If Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet it, then nobody does; and for me, it's a psychological ploy to use
John Wayne Gacy
#41. 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.
John Wayne
#42. I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.
Ray Winstone
#43. 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.
John Wayne
#44. My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.
Joseph Bologna
#45. 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.
John Wayne
#46. I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.
John Wayne
#47. I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.
John Wayne
#48. If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
John Wayne
#49. 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
#50. I've made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.
John Wayne
#51. A man oughta do what he thinks is best.
John Wayne
#52. Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.
John Wayne
#53. Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
John Wayne
#54. John Wayne never wore Lycra.
Ron Kauk
#55. I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.
Clive Sinclair
#56. TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!
John Wayne
#57. 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
#58. John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.
Maureen O'Hara
#59. I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.
John Wayne
#60. If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne
#62. When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.
Ben Mendelsohn
#63. 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.
John Wayne
#64. 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.
John Wayne
#65. I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.
John Wayne
#66. I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.
Ron Kovic
#67. Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
#68. 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.
John Wayne
#69. 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!
John Wayne
#70. 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
#71. A mangled corpse in the middle of a blood-drenched floor. Berserk FBI field agents drawing guns and shooting to kill. A little kung fu, a little John Wayne, and a few casual threats.
So far, I thought, my nerves jangling, just one more night on the job.
Jim Butcher
#72. Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded ... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.
John Wayne
#73. Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
John Wayne
#74. Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
John Wayne
#75. 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.
John Wayne
#76. Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.
John Wayne
#77. Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.
John Agar
#78. There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.
John Wayne
#79. It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.
John Wayne
#81. I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
John Wayne
#82. 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.
John Wayne
#83. If I was white I would have been like John Wayne ... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play
Tupac Shakur
#85. 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.
John Wayne
#86. 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.
John Wayne
#87. Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
John Wayne
#88. I believe humor nullifies violence.
John Wayne
#89. I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.
Howard Hawks
#90. Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.
Robert Duvall
#91. A man ought to do what he thinks is right
John Wayne
#92. I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.
Wayne Coyne
#93. Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
John Wayne
#94. All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
John Wayne
#95. 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.
John Wayne
#96. True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.
John Wayne
#97. Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.
John Wayne
#98. A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
John Wayne
#99. I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that ... but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.
John Wayne
#100. Cause even grown men need understanding.
John Wayne
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