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If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'


I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.


Get off your butt and join the Marines!


Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.


I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.


All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.


I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.


When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.


When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.


Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.


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.


I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.


Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.


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


Get off your horse and drink your milk.


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


Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.


I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.


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.


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