When I was 6 years old we were called up into his office and John Wayne was sitting there. He deputized John Wayne.

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.