Goudy:
Now is it not true that you sprang up on old man Wharton and his two sons with a deadly, six shot revolver in your hand?
Rooster Cogburn: I always try to be ready.
Goudy: Was this revolver loaded and cocked?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn: I always try to be ready.
Goudy: Was this revolver loaded and cocked?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Colonel Mike Kirby:
You're what this is all about.
--John Wayne (as Colonel Mike Kirby) in The Green Berets
--John Wayne (as Colonel Mike Kirby) in The Green Berets
Ethan:
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time; I took mine to the Confederate States of America.
--John Wayne (as Ethan Edwards) in The Searchers
--John Wayne (as Ethan Edwards) in The Searchers
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
[as they watch the inspectors drive away] Wonderful the way people believe in those high powered canoes of yours.
Lt. John Brickley: Don't you believe in them, Rusty?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: And I let you sell me that stuff about a command of my own.
Lt. John Brickley: You're skipper of the 34 boat, aren't you?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: I used to skipper a cake of soap in the bathtub, too.
[He walks off]
--John Wayne (as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan) in They Were Expendable
Lt. John Brickley: Don't you believe in them, Rusty?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: And I let you sell me that stuff about a command of my own.
Lt. John Brickley: You're skipper of the 34 boat, aren't you?
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan: I used to skipper a cake of soap in the bathtub, too.
[He walks off]
--John Wayne (as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan) in They Were Expendable
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
Listen Brick, for years I've been taking your fatherly advice, and it's never been any good. So from now on, I'm strictly a one man band!
--John Wayne (as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan) in They Were Expendable
--John Wayne (as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan) in They Were Expendable
Lt. 'Rusty' Ryan:
Listen sister, I don't dance!
--John Wayne (as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan) in They Were Expendable
--John Wayne (as Lt. J.G. 'Rusty' Ryan) in They Were Expendable
Rooster Cogburn:
[cocks his gun] Mr. Rat... I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same. See? Doesn't pay any attention to me.
[shoots the rat]
Chen Lee: [runs into the room] Outside is place for shooting!
Rooster Cogburn: I'm serving some papers.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
[shoots the rat]
Chen Lee: [runs into the room] Outside is place for shooting!
Rooster Cogburn: I'm serving some papers.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
Any man who packs a big bore Sharps carbine could come in mighty handy, if we're attacked by buffalo... or elephants.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
Baby sister, I was born game and I intend to go out that way.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
Boots, I got Hayes and some youngster outside with Moon and Quincy. I want you to bury 'em for me. I'm in a hurry.
Capt. Boots Finch: They're dead?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Capt. Boots Finch: They're dead?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
