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United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979)

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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity.

– John Wayne

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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.

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If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow

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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.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

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

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

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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.

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From "The Undefeated". When facing down a group of bandito's, Wayne, the ex Union Colonel, opens fire and kills the leader. After retreating to the circled wagons, one of the women says "why did you have to kill the man?" Wayne responds "Well, the conversation just kinda dried up ma'am.

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Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

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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

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Fill your hands, you son of a bitch

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A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don't walk away - forevermore, he don't walk away

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A horse is a horse,it ain´t make a difference what color it is

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I've always followed my father's advice he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.

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

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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.

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Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

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Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful

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All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else

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

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A man ought to do what he thinks is right

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What is it now, pilgrim… your conscience?

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A black sheep in the family, no doubt

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Never apologize, it's a sign of weakness

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You didn't get bucked off you fell off. I have a horse that can teach you the difference.

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That'll be the day!

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A man's got to do what a man's got to do

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Republic. I like the sound of the word

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Sorry don't get it done, Dude.

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"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from the." The shootist.

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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.

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If you say "three," mister, you'll never hear the man count "ten."

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Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday

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I'm not gonna hit ya! ..... I'm not gonna hit ya! .... The Hell I'm NOT! (next is the movie sound of fist poping someone in the jaw)

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Kirk Douglas: Mine hit the ground first. John Wayne: Mine was taller.

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Take 'er easy there, pilgrim

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I'll have you spread-eagled on a wagon wheel

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Ya about the same time you grow a third set of teeth.

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Hypens divide

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I Hate Tricks Pilgrim

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Out here a man settles his own problems

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Think you can make it, pilgrim?

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

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What about the boy? Ya gonna hang him too or just, beat'him up some more?

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

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Pilgrim!

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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

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I'm lookin' at a tin star with a, drunk pinned on it.

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Yup. The end of a way of life. Too bad. It's a good way. Wagons forward! Yo!

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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves

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Hey Pilgrim, you forgot your pop-gun

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Hey…Pilgrim, You're Gonna Need A Couple Of Stitches

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Young fella, if you're lookin' for trouble I'll accommodate ya

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Well, don't fret about that, pilgrim

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Think Ya Can Make It Pilgrim?

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Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim

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Pilgrim, hold it, I said you, Valance, you pick it up

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You're a persistent cuss, pilgrim

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Think back, pilgrim… Remember?

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Well Good Luck Pilgrim

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Never say sorry - it's a sign of weakness

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Step down, pilgrim. Take a look

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Burning daylight

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There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

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Quotes from the news wire:

Going to a presidentsinauguration, no matter who itis, thats what youre supposedto do, its an honor to makehistory and get to do that.

– John Wayne

Found on FOX News 5 years ago

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Marcus Pennington
I always admired the man
LikeReply7 years ago
Richmond Rawlinson
Awesome
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Alan Musgrave
I admire JW alot, but I don't these are all quotes from him. I believe a lot of the are lines from his movies. A quote is something a person says not what he reads from a script.
LikeReply 27 years ago
Steven McGregor
One I heard in The Undefeated. ...." I hope your in heaven half an hour brfore the devil knows your dead "
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Kenneth Stock
Where was "Ya better listen up, Pilgrim," derrived from?
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Les Johnston
Get off your horse and drink your milk, pilgrim
LikeReply 19 years ago
JD Wood
all those pilgrim quotes were from the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
LikeReply 210 years ago

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