John Wayne

About John Wayne

“We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!”
— 1954, in an interview with Hedda Hopper regarding his marriage to Esperanza "Chata" Baur.
“In fact, I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a reactor. I listen to what to what the other guys says and I react to it. That's the John Wayne method.”
— Speaking in 1958 with ; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn Has Hope, Welles Has Wasteland" by Hamblett, The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 4, 1969), p. 109
“I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.”
— Playboy interview, May 1971
“There's a lot of things great about life. But I think tomorrow is the most important thing. Comes in to us at midnight very clean, ya know. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
— Playboy interview, May 1971

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