John Wayne Quotes

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

America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.

Contrary to what people think, I’m no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes I wonder whose side God’s on.

I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.

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

Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it’s a lot tougher.

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

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.