"Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway."
John Wayne
American actor
JOHN WAYNE QUOTES
Quotes on men:
Cause even grown men need understanding.
A man ought to do what he thinks is right
A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
A man’s got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.
All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.
You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.
Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.
Men forget everything; women remember everything.
A man is no better than he has to be.
Out here a man settles his own problems.
“When you stop fighting, that’s death.”
Quotes on life:
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.
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.
I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.
When you come against trouble, it’s never half as bad if you face up to it.
I’d like to know why the well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazing and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.
About
JOHN WAYNE
John Wayne was an American actor, director and producer. Famous for his roles in Western films, he was among the top box office draws for three decades.
Wayne’s first leading role was in Raoul Walsh’s Western The Big Trail (1930). He became a mainstream star with John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939). He starred in a total of 142 motion pictures including Red River (1948), The Quiet Man (1952), The Searchers (1956), Rio Bravo (1959), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), The Longest Day (1962), and True Grit (1969). For True Grit, he received the Academy Award for Best Actor.
On June 9, 1980, Wayne was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. In 1985, the John Wayne Cancer Foundation was founded in his honour. John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California is named after him. A nine-foot-tall bronze statue of him stands at the entrance of the airport. In 1999, the American Film Institute listed Wayne as the 13th Greatest Male Screen Legends of Classic Hollywood cinema.