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TWO JOHN WAYNE QUOTES

After "Snakehead Terror" on Sci-Fi last night, I read a little, ichatted a little and then went up to bed and just for the heck of it turned on AMC - American Movie Classics. It was a John Wayne movie - "Cahill, U.S. Marshal" and I watched part of it, until AMC's commercials annoyed me into turning it off and pulling the blanket over my head. Do you remember when AMC didn't interrupt movies with commercials? Well, it was nice.

So this morning I got to thinking about the movie and wondered if the boys who played his sons, were, in fact, his sons. I looked it up on the Internet and they were not, but I found a couple of quotes from Mr. Wayne and I thought I'd share them here.

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

"When I started, I knew I was no actor and I went to work on this Wayne thing," he once recalled. "It was as deliberate a projection as you'll ever see. I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up the 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."

I found these remarks at this John Wayne biographical site.

posted by Jody @ 10:23 AM