John Wayne
John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison, better known by his stage name John Wayne and the nickname Duke, was an American actor, director, and producer. An Academy Award-winner for True Grit, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth26 May 1907
CountryUnited States of America
patriotic flags wave
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?
husband sleep night
I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?
art hate mistake
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.
morning good-day fighting
You don't have to fight to be brave. Millions of good, fine, decent folks show more bravery than heavyweight champs just by getting out of bed every morning, going out to do a good day's work and living the best life they know how against the law of odds.
blow liberty entertainment
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.
stars hero feet
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.
heart pride men
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.
men want greedy
I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
girl love-you knows
Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.
men
A man is no better than he has to be.
stupid tough
Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
horse half mets
Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!
joy world problem
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.
thinking people politician
Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.