326 Quotes by John Wayne (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 16, 2025

Find and rate the best quotes by John Wayne, selected from famous or less known movies, radio, and other sources, as rated by our community, featuring short sound clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 Let's make some music.

As Cole Thornton in El Dorado (1966)

2 And if I'm gonna have somebody tell me about women, it isn't gonna be you!

As Cole Thornton in El Dorado (1966)

3 I lived most of my life in the wild country, and you set a code of laws to live by. -What laws? -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.

As J.B. Books in The Shootist

4 Whoa. I hope you're smart enough to know that that who hit John don't go with guns. -Oh, sure. Yes, sir.

As J.B. Books in The Shootist

5 Well, my church has been the mountains and solitude. No doors at all.

As J.B. Books in The Shootist

6 Funny thing how a fella can sleep with four big engines hollering in his ears, only wake up when they stop hollering. Imagine silence waking you up at home?

As Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

7 There's a lot of things I'm not saying to you, mister, while you got a sawed-off shotgun in my middle.

As George Washington McLintock in McLintock! (1963)

8 Everybody works for somebody. Me, I work for everybody in these United States that steps into a butcher's shop for a T-bone steak, and you work for me. There's not much difference.

As George Washington McLintock in McLintock! (1963)

9 You know, you can get sort of used to having somebody not like you. And when they're not around, you miss them not liking you.

As Breck Coleman in The Big Trail (1930)

10 Hunger! Empty bellies! That's the sense it makes, you blanket head!

As Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956)

326 Quotes by John Wayne (+ Sound Clips)

1 Let's make some music.

2 And if I'm gonna have somebody tell me about women, it isn't gonna be you!

3 I lived most of my life in the wild country, and you set a code of laws to live by. -What laws? -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.

4 Whoa. I hope you're smart enough to know that that who hit John don't go with guns. -Oh, sure. Yes, sir.

5 Well, my church has been the mountains and solitude. No doors at all.

6 Funny thing how a fella can sleep with four big engines hollering in his ears, only wake up when they stop hollering. Imagine silence waking you up at home?

7 There's a lot of things I'm not saying to you, mister, while you got a sawed-off shotgun in my middle.

8 Everybody works for somebody. Me, I work for everybody in these United States that steps into a butcher's shop for a T-bone steak, and you work for me. There's not much difference.

9 You know, you can get sort of used to having somebody not like you. And when they're not around, you miss them not liking you.

10 Hunger! Empty bellies! That's the sense it makes, you blanket head!

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll