I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

We're burnin' daylight!

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up this drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.

A man ought to do what he thinks is right