Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?

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.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.