Quotes by John Wayne

“I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.”

“There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our ha...”

“With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the lead...”

“The picture business has grown up since I got into it 15 years ago, has acquired a dignity that is beyond reproach. Hollywood is, today, a quiet town compared to other places I have been and can, m...”

“Wayne's most enduring image is that of the displaced loner uncomfortable with the very civilization he is helping to establish and preserve...At his first appearance, we usually sense a very privat...”

“It was there, that summer of 1943 while the hot wind blew outside, that I first saw John Wayne. Saw the walk, heard the voice. Heard him tell the girl in a picture called War of the Wildcats that h...”

“John Wayne was such a nice man, but he was always a little shy with women, especially blondes.”

“John Wayne once called him a goddamn liberal pinko faggot and Barry [Norman] laughed in his face. But that just made him even crosser explains Barry. He got up out of his chair, clearly intent on d...”