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"I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?"
"I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres."
"Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer."
"Get off your butt and join the Marines!"
"My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in."
"I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count."
"Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind."
"Out here a man settles his own problems."
"I never shot nobody I didnt have to."
"I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?"
"Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it."
"I never killed a man I didn't have to."
"I'm the stuff men are made of!"
"General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.""
"Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on."
"Jesus Christ! I would crawl over the mountains of Beverly Hills on my hands and knees if I could do a movie with Doris Day!"
"If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business."
"But don't get me wrong. As far as a man and a woman is concerned, I'm awfully happy there's a thing called sex. It's an extra something God gave us. I see no reason why it shouldn't be in pictures. Healthy, lusty sex is wonderful."
"I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going."
"Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid."