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.

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

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

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.