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Film Quotes by John Wayne

233 quotes
The Fighting Kentuckian
Year: 1949

Director:
George Waggner
Beau Merritt: [holding up a glass] Have a shot?
John Breen: [holding up his wounded arm] Just had one.
Dakota
Year: 1945

Director:
Joseph Kane
Sandy Poli: That's papa! He's shooting at us!
John Devlin: All I want to know is: do you take after your papa or mama?
Sandy Poli: Papa always wants to shoot things out. He has no more sense than you have. I do hope he doesn't kill us. He'd never get over it.
John Devlin: Well, I'd feel kind of regretful about it myself.
-- John Wayne in Dakota (1945)
Santa Fe Stampede
Year: 1938

Director:
George Sherman
Nancy Carson: Well, you've certainly made a hit with Billy and Julie.
Stony Brooke: I wish the rest of the family felt that way.
Nancy Carson: Give me a good reason why I should.
Stony Brooke: Oh, well, I'm kind to animals and help old ladies across the street.
Tucson Smith: That is, when there aren't any young ones to help.
Stony Brooke: The voice of experience.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Year: 1962

Director:
John Ford
Liberty Valance: You lookin' for trouble, Doniphon?
Tom Doniphon: You aim to help me find some?
-- John Wayne (as Tom Doniphon) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The War Wagon
Year: 1967

Director:
Burt Kennedy
Lomax: Do you always wear a gun over your underwear?
Taw Jackson: Just lately.
-- John Wayne (as Taw Jackson) in The War Wagon (1967)
The War Wagon
Year: 1967

Director:
Burt Kennedy
Lomax: Don't let anything happen to ya.
Taw Jackson: Not likely.
-- John Wayne (as Taw Jackson) in The War Wagon (1967)
The War Wagon
Year: 1967

Director:
Burt Kennedy
Lomax: You know, Pierce upped the ante on you. You're worth twelve thousand to me... dead.
Taw Jackson: And a hundred thousand alive.
Lomax: One's a gamble, the other's a sure thing.
Taw Jackson: Lomax, nothing's a sure thing.
Lola: [from the bedroom] Precious?
Lomax: Well, I didn't feel much like shooting you this morning anyway... partner.
Taw Jackson: Neither did I... precious.
-- John Wayne (as Taw Jackson) in The War Wagon (1967)
Dark Command
Year: 1940

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton: [accepting Cantrell's dinner invitation] This is the first time I've had two kinds of bird for dinner - turkey to eat, and buzzard to look at.
-- John Wayne (as Bob Seton) in Dark Command (1940)
Dark Command
Year: 1940

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton: [to "Doc" before he makes his election speech] I gotta get outta here!
-- John Wayne (as Bob Seton) in Dark Command (1940)
Dark Command
Year: 1940

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Bob 'Shortcut' Seton: Folks, it's true. I don't know much about the law. Ain't had much book learning. But the good Lord gave me a nose for smelling a horse thief a mile off. And what you need in these parts is a marshal that's better at smelling than spelling.
-- John Wayne (as Bob Seton) in Dark Command (1940)