John Wayne quotes
“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.”
“Life is hard. It's even harder if you're stupid.”
- From the movie: Tall in the Saddle
“I never feel sorry for anything that happens to a woman.”
“Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from yesterday.”
- From the movie: The Searchers
“- Martin: I hope you die!
- Ethan: That'll be the day.” - From the movie: The Quiet Man
“Si' down, si' down. That's what chairs are for.”
- From the movie: The Quiet Man
“- Thornton: If anybody had told me six months ago that today I'd be in a graveyard in Innisfree with a girl like you that I'm just about to kiss, I'd have told 'em...
- Mary Kate Danaher: Oh, but the kisses are a long way off yet!
- Thornton: Huh?
- Mary Kate Danaher: Well, we just started a-courtin', and next month, we, we start the walkin'...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Quiet Man
“There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate... except those in your own mercenary little heart!”
“Courage is when you’re scared to death, but you saddle up anyway.”
- La trovi in About Colleagues
“John Ford isn't exactly a bum, is he? Yet he never gave me any manure about art. He just made movies and that's what I do.”
“I don't go around shooting off my mouth about the problems of acting. In fact I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a re-actor.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
- From the movie: True Grit
“- Rooster Cogburn: Why, by God, girl, that's a Colt's Dragoon! You're no bigger than a corn nubbin, what're you doing with all this pistol?
- Mattie Ross: It belonged to my father, he carried it bravely in the war, and I intend to kill Tom Chaney with it if the law fails to do so.
- Rooster Cogburn: Well, this'll sure get the job done if you can...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Stagecoach
“- The Ringo Kid: Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks... neither have I. And, well, maybe I'm takin' a lot for granted, but... I watched you with that baby - that other woman's baby. You looked... well, well I still got a ranch across the border. There's a nice place - a real nice place... trees... grass... water. There's a cabin half built. A...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: McLintock!
“- Drago: Take it easy, boss, he's just a little excited, that's all.
- George Washington 'G.W.' McLintock: I know, I know. I'm gonna use good judgement. I haven't lost my temper in forty years, but pilgrim you caused a lot of trouble this morning, might have got somebody killed... and somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't....” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: True Grit
“- Rooster Cogburn: When's the last time you saw Ned Pepper?
- Emmett Quincy: I don't remember any Ned Pepper.
- Rooster Cogburn: Short feisty fella, nervous and quick, got a messed-up lower lip.
- Emmett Quincy: That don't bring nobody to mind. A funny lip?
- Rooster Cogburn: Wasn't always like that, I shot him in it.
- Emmett Quincy: In the...” (continue)(continue reading) “Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful.”
- From the movie: McLintock!
- Rebecca 'Becky' McLintock: Well, he called me a... I can't even repeat the word!
- Devlin Warren: I didn't necessarily call you anything, but I said what I said, and I'll stand by it to the death!
- George Washington 'G.W.' McLintock: Well, just for the tally books, what did you say?
- Devlin Warren: I said “any woman that allows a man to kiss... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- From the movie: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
“- Dutton Peabody: Give me a drink.
- Tom Doniphon: Bar's closed.
- Dutton Peabody: Just a beer!
- Tom Doniphon: The bar's closed.
- Dutton Peabody: A beer's not drinking!” - From the movie: Rio Bravo
“- Feathers: How does a... how does a man get to be a sheriff?
- John T. Chance: Gets lazy. Gets tired of selling his gun all over. Decides to sell it in one place.
- Feathers: I'd say you made a poor sale.
- John T. Chance: A lot of people around here'll agree with you.
- Feathers: But... it's still a sale and it's too late to back out.” - From the movie: Rio Bravo
“- John T. Chance: You take chances, my friend.
- Carlos Robante: Because I know woman. If she will be mad or she will be sorry; if it is 'mad', she will be much pleasure to make right; and if she is 'sorry', it will be the same pleasure. You - you do not have women, so you do not know, senor. But me - Carlos Robante - I know.” - From the movie: Rio Bravo
“- Feathers: I thought you were never going to say it.
- John T. Chance: Say what?
- Feathers: That you love me.
- John T. Chance: I said I'd arrest you.
- Feathers: It means the same thing, you know that.” - From the movie: Rio Bravo
“- John T. Chance: Got any new men with you, Pat?
- Pat Wheeler: Nah, nobody 'cept Colorado, here.
- John T. Chance: Where'd you take him on?
- Pat Wheeler: Fort Worth.
- John T. Chance: What does he do?
- Colorado Ryan: I speak English, sheriff. If you wanna ask me.”
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