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.
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
I’ve loved reading all my life.
Just one more question, Pilgrim. How far up your ass do you want my boot?
Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.
Life it tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.
All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
Fear is just one of the many words I don’t know the meaning of.
As we live in an insane world major, maybe it’s time we gave insane solutions a chance.
Drop that or I’ll blow ya straight to Jesus.
I haven’t had a fight since I was eleven. I only won that because she had an asthma attack.
Don’t hit your posset with a stick mister, it tends to make you cough.
Courage is being completely paralyzed with fear and taking the first step anyway. Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
When you side with a man you stay with him, and if you can’t do that you’re like some animal. You’re finished.
Liberty Valance is a cancer on this fair town. He’s the cancer and I’m the, uh... what cures cancer?
Fire can be our friend. Whether it’s toasting marshmallows of raining down on Charlie.
I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.
I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that’s what you’re asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
My name is John Wayne. When I was a kid I had ring worm. Hell, I was more worm than boy for a couple of years.
And so he plays his part; the sixth age shifts’... I usually have trouble with that phrase.
Life is hard. It is harder if you are stupid!