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. John Wayne Read Quote
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. John Wayne Read Quote
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. John Wayne Read Quote
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props. John Wayne Read Quote
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets. John Wayne Read Quote
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. John Wayne Read Quote
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. John Wayne Read Quote
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. John Wayne Read Quote
