Film Quotes by John Wayne
233 quotes
Year: 1969
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Goudy:
Now is it not true that you sprang up on old man Wharton and his two sons with a deadly, six shot revolver in your hand?
Rooster Cogburn: I always try to be ready.
Goudy: Was this revolver loaded and cocked?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'.
Rooster Cogburn: I always try to be ready.
Goudy: Was this revolver loaded and cocked?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'.
--
John Wayne
(as Rooster Cogburn)
in
True Grit
(1969)
Year: 1968
Director:
Ray Kellogg*John Wayne*Mervyn LeRoy
Director:
Ray Kellogg*John Wayne*Mervyn LeRoy
Colonel Mike Kirby:
You're what this is all about.
--
John Wayne
(as Colonel Mike Kirby)
in
The Green Berets
(1968)
Year: 1956
Director:
John Ford
Director:
John Ford
Ethan:
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time; I took mine to the Confederate States of America.
--
John Wayne
(as Ethan Edwards)
in
The Searchers
(1956)
Year: 1945
Director:
John Ford*Robert Montgomery
Director:
John Ford*Robert Montgomery
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
[as they watch the inspectors drive away] Wonderful the way people believe in those high powered canoes of yours.
Lt. John Brickley: Don't you believe in them, Rusty?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: And I let you sell me that stuff about a command of my own.
Lt. John Brickley: You're skipper of the 34 boat, aren't you?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: I used to skipper a cake of soap in the bathtub, too.
[He walks off]
Lt. John Brickley: Don't you believe in them, Rusty?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: And I let you sell me that stuff about a command of my own.
Lt. John Brickley: You're skipper of the 34 boat, aren't you?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: I used to skipper a cake of soap in the bathtub, too.
[He walks off]
--
John Wayne
(as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan)
in
They Were Expendable
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
John Ford*Robert Montgomery
Director:
John Ford*Robert Montgomery
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
Listen Brick, for years I've been taking your fatherly advice, and it's never been any good. So from now on, I'm strictly a one man band!
--
John Wayne
(as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan)
in
They Were Expendable
(1945)
Year: 1945
Director:
John Ford*Robert Montgomery
Director:
John Ford*Robert Montgomery
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
Listen sister, I don't dance!
--
John Wayne
(as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan)
in
They Were Expendable
(1945)
Year: 1969
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Rooster Cogburn:
[cocks his gun] Mr. Rat... I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same. See? Doesn't pay any attention to me.
[shoots the rat]
Chen Lee: [runs into the room] Outside is place for shooting!
Rooster Cogburn: I'm serving some papers.
[shoots the rat]
Chen Lee: [runs into the room] Outside is place for shooting!
Rooster Cogburn: I'm serving some papers.
--
John Wayne
(as Rooster Cogburn)
in
True Grit
(1969)
Year: 1969
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Rooster Cogburn:
Any man who packs a big bore Sharps carbine could come in mighty handy, if we're attacked by buffalo... or elephants.
--
John Wayne
(as Rooster Cogburn)
in
True Grit
(1969)
Year: 1969
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Rooster Cogburn:
Baby sister, I was born game and I intend to go out that way.
--
John Wayne
(as Rooster Cogburn)
in
True Grit
(1969)
Year: 1969
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Rooster Cogburn:
Boots, I got Hayes and some youngster outside with Moon and Quincy. I want you to bury 'em for me. I'm in a hurry.
Capt. Boots Finch: They're dead?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't.
Capt. Boots Finch: They're dead?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't.
--
John Wayne
(as Rooster Cogburn)
in
True Grit
(1969)