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Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

"Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it."

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

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

“Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home”

"Now you understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all... your fault, my fault, nobody's fault... it don't matter...I'm gonna blow your head off. It's as simple as that." from the movie Big Jake

Capt. Rockwell Torrey (In Harm's Way):
"All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else."

If it hadn`t been for football and the fact I got my leg broke and had to go into the movies to eat, why, who knows, I might have turned out to be a liberal Democrat.

John Bernard Books (The Shootist):
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."

Col. Michael Kirby (The Green Berets):
"Out here, due process is a bullet."

I`m not going to give you those I-was-a-poor-boy-and-I-pulled-myself-up-by-my-bootstraps-stories, but I`ve gone without a meal or two in my lifetime, and I still don`t expect the government to turn over any of its territory to me.

[When asked if he believed in God] There must be some higher power or how else does all this stuff work?

I have found a certain type calls himself a liberal . . . Now I always thought I was a liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a right-wing conservative extremist.

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.

We`ve made mistakes along the way, but that`s no reason to start tearing up the best flag God ever gave to any country.

I said there was a tall, lanky kid that led 150 airplanes across Berlin. He was an actor, but that day, I said, he was a colonel. Colonel Jimmy Stewart [James Stewart]. So I said, "What is all this crap about Reagan being an actor?"

I don`t think a fella should be able to sit on his backside and receive welfare. I`d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

When people say a John Wayne picture got bad reviews, I always wonder if they know it`s a redundant sentence, but hell, I don`t care. People like my pictures and that`s all that counts.

I think that the loud roar of irresponsible liberalism . . . is being quieted down by a reasoning public. I think the pendulum is swinging back. We`re remembering that the past can`t be so bad. We built a nation on it. We have to look to tomorrow.

To me, The Wild Bunch (1969) was distasteful. It would have been a good picture without the gore. Pictures go too far when they use that kind of realism, when they have shots of blood spurting out and teeth flying, and when they throw liver out to make it look like people`s insides. "The Wild Bunch" was one of the first to go that far in realism, and the curious went to see it. That may make the bankers and stock promoters think that it is a necessary ingredient for successful motion pictures. They seem to forget the one basic principle of our business - illusion. We`re in the business of magic. I don`t think it hurts a child to see anything that has the illusion of violence in it. All our fairy tales have some kind of violence - the good knight riding to kill the dragon, etc. Why do we have to show the knight spreading the serpent`s guts all over the candy mountain?

I`ve known Jane Fonda since she was a little girl. I`ve never agreed with a word she`s said, but would give my life defending her right to say it.

Listen, I spoke to the man up there on many occasions and I have what I always had: deep faith that there is a Supreme Being. There has to be, you know; it`s just to me, that`s just a normal thing, to have that kind of faith. The fact that He`s let me stick around a little longer certainly goes great with me, and I want to hang around as long as I`m healthy and not in anybody`s way.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag-waving patriot.

A man`s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

[on The Alamo (1960)] This picture is America. I hope that seeing the battle of the Alamo will remind Americans that liberty and freedom don`t come cheap. This picture, well, I guess making it has made me feel useful to my country.

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.

There`s been a lot of stories about how I got to be called Duke. One was that I played the part of a duke in a school play--which I never did. Sometimes, they even said I was descended from royalty! It was all a lot of rubbish. Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!

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.

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.

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