1920년대에 이름을 떨친 여배우 Louise Brooks의 전기에 이런 말이 나온다고 한다. dukewayne.com 게시판에서 인용한다. Louise Brooks는 그녀의 마지막 영화 [Overland Stage Raiders](1938)에서 듀크와 공연했다.

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.........At sunrise one August morning I was driven in a company car to location on the ranch where Republic shot all its westerns. Where was I supposed to go I wondered, after I got out of the car and stood alone in a cloud of dust kicked up by a passing string of horses - that dammned dust so cherished by western cameramaen. Up the road a bunch of cowboys were talking and laughing with two men who had stood slightly apart from them. When the company car honked for them to get off the road, the two men looked around saw me, and came to greet me. One was a cherub, five feet tall carrying a bound smile; the other was a cowboy, six feet four inches tall, wearing a lovely smile. The cherub, who was the director, George Sherman introduced me to the cowboy who was John Wayne .....Looking up at him I thought, this is no actor but the hero of all mythology miraculously brough to life.
During my thirteen years in films I had made a study of the manner in which the reigning stars of Hollywood excersed their power. My first study had been of Queen Gloria Swanson, who knocked people about like bowling pins. My last study had been of King Clark Gable, who wore his crown at an apologetic angle. Now for the first time I beheld a Duke born to reign. John was in fact, that which Henry James defined as the greatest of all works of art - a purely beautiful thing.