BIRTHDAY DAY ... JOHN WAYNE!
"I made up my mind that I was going to play a real man to the best of
my ability. I felt many of the western stars of the twenties and
thirties were too goddamn perfect. They never drank or smoked. They
never wanted to go to bed with a beautiful girl. They never had a fight.
A heavy might throw a chair at them, and they just looked surprised and
didn't fight in this spirit. They were too goddamn sweet and pure to be
dirty fighters. Well, I wanted to be a dirty fighter if that was the
only way to fight back. If someone throws a chair at you, hell, you pick
up a chair and belt him right back. I was trying to play a man who gets
dirty, who sweats sometimes, who enjoys kissing a gal he likes, who
gets angry, who fights clean whenever possible but will fight dirty if
he has to. You could say I made the western hero a roughneck."
"I made up my mind that I was going to play a real man to the best of my ability. I felt many of the western stars of the twenties and thirties were too goddamn perfect. They never drank or smoked. They never wanted to go to bed with a beautiful girl. They never had a fight. A heavy might throw a chair at them, and they just looked surprised and didn't fight in this spirit. They were too goddamn sweet and pure to be dirty fighters. Well, I wanted to be a dirty fighter if that was the only way to fight back. If someone throws a chair at you, hell, you pick up a chair and belt him right back. I was trying to play a man who gets dirty, who sweats sometimes, who enjoys kissing a gal he likes, who gets angry, who fights clean whenever possible but will fight dirty if he has to. You could say I made the western hero a roughneck."
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