John Wayne Quotes - Page 4

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget. . . . he didn't lose your number. . . . he didn't die. He just didn't want to call you.

I believe humor nullifies violence.

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

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?

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.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

We're burnin' daylight!

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

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. I was proud when President Nixon ordered the mining of Haiphong Harbor, which we should have done long ago, because I think we're helping a brave little country defend herself against Communist invasion. That's what I tried to show in The Green Berets and I took plenty of abuse from the critics.

courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life

Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne