warrrreagl

I already did this thread, but it was 6 years ago and it didn't really take off. Maybe the second time will be the charm. These are my 11 favorite, most memorable lines from movie westerns. I know there are tons more, but I didn't want to take up all of them.

1. Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy! – The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Josey Wales meets up with a bounty hunter who’s looking for him. When Wales asks if he’s a bounty hunter, the man shrugs and says that a man’s got to do something for a living.

2. "All right now, I'm comin' out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna shoot him. Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, but I'm gonna kill his wife. All his friends. Burn his damn house down." - Unforgiven (1993)

Gunslinger Bill Munny calls out this warning to anyone who may be waiting for him in the street outside the saloon.

3. "Fill your hand you son-of-a-bitch" - True Grit (1969)

“One-eyed fat man” Marshall Rooster Cogburn calls out this final warning to Ned Pepper and his gang before he rides into their midst all alone.

4. "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." -- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (1966)

Tuco can’t even enjoy a relaxing bath without being interrupted by a gunslinger who talks too much. When Tuco gets tired of listening to the man tell him what he’s going to do to him, Tuco shoots him and delivers this line.

5. "We deal in lead, friend." – The Magnificent Seven (1960)

When the outlaw Calvera wants to know exactly what the American gunslingers are up to, Vin explains it rather succinctly.

6. "Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?" -- The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Ex-confederate guerilla fighter and wanted outlaw Josey Wales finds himself in a border town with a price on his head, and confronted on the sidewalk by four Union soldiers who aren’t sure what to do with their weapons.

7. "Well, that damned Cuban cigar got me riled up." – Open Range (2003)

Boss Spearman and Charley Waite are pleasantly surprised to learn that Percy, the old man running the livery stable, has jumped into the gunfight on their side. However, when they ask him why he’s hobbling, he explains how a new cigar might have been the culprit.

8. "Well he should have armed himself if he’s going to decorate his saloon with my friend." – Unforgiven (1992)

Bill Munny confronts the owner of the saloon where he found the body of his friend, Ned Logan, defiled and on display. Once Munny establishes who owns the saloon, he kills him with a shotgun blast, and the sheriff informs him that he’s just shot an unarmed man.

9. "Oh, I know, I'm gonna use good judgment. I haven't lost my temper in 40 years. But Pilgrim, you caused a lot of trouble this morning, mighta got somebody killed. And somebody ought to belt you in the mouth. But I won't. I won't. Aw, the hell, I won't!"
– McLintock! (1963)

Cattle baron George Washington McLintock has a confrontation with a troublesome land-grabber. This famous line (and resultant punch) is followed by one of the greatest western mud fights ever filmed.

10. "If he'd just pay me what he's paying them to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him!" -- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Butch Cassidy has grown used to token resistance in his robberies of the Union Pacific Railroad, and it really starts to bother him when the company’s president starts implementing some aggressive (and expensive) pro-active security procedures specifically designed to thwart Butch.

11. "I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it." -- For A Few Dollars More (1965)

When Monco rides into town on his mule, several desperados taunt and tease him. They eventually start firing shots at the feet of his mule, causing it to race down the town’s main street while they laugh. When Monco dismounts, he tells the undertaker to prepare three coffins and then confronts the men to set things right between them and his mule.

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"I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger. I wont"

(JB Books)

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Unforgiven:

The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.

Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.

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sapiens

No John Ford quotes yet?!!? A few from Stagecoach:
Ringo Kid: Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

[Mrs. Mallory, a passenger, has just given birth]
Buck: Hey, Curly, do you think I oughta charge Mrs. Mallory's baby half fare?


From Johnny Guitar:
Sam: [Meekly, to the two men in the kitchen] Never seen a woman who was more of a man. She thinks like one, acts like one, and sometimes makes me feel like I'm not.


Two from High Noon:
Martin: You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.

Helen: You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders. But he's a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man.


Can't forget Shane !
(for the 2nd Amendment crowd):
Shane: A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.

Joey: [A boy who doesn't understand] Pa's got things for you to do. And Mother wants you. I know she does!

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I have consulted my resident film scholar. She says that The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a western. I agree:
Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.


The Oxbow Incident:
Major Tetley: This is only slightly any of your business, my friend. Remember that.
Gil Carter: Hangin' is any man's business that's around.

Donald Martin: Justice? What do you care about justice? You don't even care whether you've got the right men or not. All you know is you've lost something and somebody's got to be punished.

Donald Martin: Why do ya keep asking me all these questions? You don't believe anything I tell you.
Major Tetley: There's truth in lies too, if you can get enough of them.


One from Rio Bravo:
John T. Chance: Stumpy?
Stumpy: Yeah?
John T. Chance: Going over to the hotel for a few minutes.
Stumpy: Well, if'n ya don't come back, me 'n' Joe'll have us a good cry.
(Walter Brennan (Stumpy) is hilarious!)


I love Westerns!

mixedmedia

Hedley Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Taggart: God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

heh, sorry...couldn't resist.

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Fremen

From Silverado:

Paden: Stella. Are you the Midnight Star herself?
Stella: I am. I'm always there, but I only shine at night.
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Cobb: We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging.
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Stella: The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.
(after Paden notices her step-plank behind the bar)
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Hobart: Baxter! Hawley! Where the hell've you been? You're late and I tell you, I don't like it. It's a bad start, boys. I got my people down there throwin' snowballs and rarin' to go.
Emmett: I'm afraid it is a bad start, friend, 'cause my name ain't Baxter, he ain't Hawley.
Hobart: You're not Baxter?
Emmett: Name's Emmett.
Hobart: You're not Baxter either?
Paden: No, I'm not Hawley.
Hobart: Goddammit. Goddammit, they ain't Baxter and Hawley! Where in the hell are Baxter and Hawley?
Baxter: [Baxter and Hawley ride up on their horses] Quit your yellin', you old coot. We're right here.
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Mal Johnson: Now, I don't wanna kill you, and you don't wanna be dead.
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Mal: If I find any cattle on our land, I'm gonna start carvin' them into steaks. And believe me, that's one thing I know about.
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Jake: You've been to Chicago?
Mal: Yeah.
Jake: Was it wonderful?
Mal: No.

This is one of my favorite Westerns. I know a lot of people don't like it, but I do.

I'll try to post another Western later.

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warrrreagl

Fremen, I love Silverado, and my favorite line is the one you have from Cobb.

If mixedmedia is going for Blazing Saddles, then there's always this:

“Hey, where the white women at?” – Blazing Saddles (1974)

And I forgot this one from Tombstone:

"You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?" – Tombstone (1993)

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Deadwood:

E.B. Farnum: God damned quagmire of piss and bull shit!


Calamity Jane: Maybe I will have a fuckin' drink, for sociability's sake and 'cause I'm a fuckin' drunk.
Joanie Stubbs: What's your preference?
Calamity Jane: That it ain't been previously swallowed.


Wild Bill Hickok: Sure you wanna quit playing, Jack? The game's always between you and getting called a cunt.
Tom Nuttall: Meeting adjourned, fellas, take it outside.
Wild Bill Hickok: That dropped eye of yours looks like the hood on a cunt to me, Jack. When you talk, your mouth looks like a cunt moving.
Jack McCall: I ain't gonna get in no gun fight with you, Hickok.
Wild Bill Hickok: But you will run your cunt mouth at me. And I will take it, to play poker.


E.B. Farnum: Separate rooms, I'll arrange that by tomorrow, but today I can't fix it, unless you kill a guest.


Al Swearengen: You want a blow job while I talk to you?
Judge: No.
Al Swearengen: I wasn't offering personally.

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Grancey

Jeremiah Johnson is one of my favorites, and this is one of my favorite lines.

You're the same dumbass pilgrim that I been hearin' for twenty days, and smellin' for three!

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- Dan Evans, 3:10 to Yuma

highthief

"You gonna do something about it or just stand there and bleed?"

Wyatt Earp, Tombstone

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thirdsun

[referring to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign]

Woodrow Call: ...and if that ain't bad enough you got all them Greek words on there, too.

Gus McCrae: I told you, Woodrow, a long time ago it ain't Greek, it's Latin.

Woodrow Call: Well what does it say in Latin?

[Gus blusters some gibberish]

Woodrow Call: For all you know it invites people to rob us.

Gus McCrae: Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.

Lonesome Dove

gump

^ Classic

One of my favorites from Lonesome Dove...

Woodrow - "A man's got better things to do then sit in some saloon with a whore."

sapiens

Once Upon a Time in the West
Henry Fonda cast as the Frank, the villian.

Frank: How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.

jimk

Glen "crazy world........"

H.I. "someone oughta sell tickets."

Glen "I'd buy one."


-Raising Arizona

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"Me and you Blondie we kill'em all" The Good ,the Bad and the Ugly.