Quotes by John Wayne

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

“The closest and most precious people in your life are guaranteed to make you feel the entire spectrum of human emotions.”

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

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

“I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences ...”

“My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.”

“Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.”

“In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.”

“Never apologize, mister, its a sign of weakness.”

“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”

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

“I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun but I can twirl one. It looks good.”

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday.”

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”

“Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.”

“I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun but I can twirl one. It looks good.”

“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.”

“We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!”

“Wow! If I'd have known that I would have put that patch on thirty-five years earlier. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm no stranger to this podium. I've come up here and picked up these beautiful golden me...”

“In fact, I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a reactor. I listen to what to what the other guys says and I react to it. That's the John Wayne method.”