re: Most Quotable Movie

Sleeper candidate for a few really good quotes.



Hombre is about John Russell, a white man that was raised by Apaches. Paul Newman plays John Russell.

Richard Boone as Grimes (talking to Newman):
Mister, you've got a lot of hard bark on you walkin' down here like this.

Doris (young stagecoach passenger):
I've heard a lot of stories about what the Indians do to white women.
Grimes: They do the same thing to white women they do to Indian women, and they don't mind it much, red or white.

Grimes (With a gun drawn, talking to the Indian Agent, Dr. Favor, who stole money from his office):
You know, the thing is; he ought to be over here with us instead of standin' over there

Audra Favor (the Indian Agent's wife):
Have you ever eaten a dog, Mr. Russell?
John Russell (Paul Newman): Eaten one and lived like one.

Mendez, played by Martin Balsam, is man who runs the stagecoach: Hombre, which name today, which do you want?
John Russell: Anything but bastard will do.

Jessie (after telling John Russell what was written on his white father's tombstone):
Well, what do you figure yours is going to read?
John Russell: Shot Dead, probably.
Jessie: Don't people take to you, Mr. Russell?
John Russell: It only takes one who doesn't.

Jessie, the lady who runs Russell's father's boarding house, after telling the sheriff to move out):
Can't quite remember how you got squatter's rights in here, anyhow. Seems to me you came by one night to ask for an extra blanket and stayed a year.

Braden (the sheriff who lives with the lady that runs John Russell's father's boarding house, after she says they should get married when John says he's selling the house):
I been working since I was ten years old, Jessie, cleaning spittoons at a dime a day. It's now thirty years later, and all I can see out the window here is a dirt road going nowhere. The only thing that changes the view is the spotted dog lifting his leg against the wall over there. Saturday nights, I haul out the town drunks. I get their 25-cent dinners and their rotgut liquor heaved up over the front of my one good shirt. I wear three pounds of iron strapped to my leg. That makes me fair game for any punk cowboy who's had one too many. No, Jess, I don't need a wife. I need out.

Mendez: You can be white, Mexican, or Indian, but I think it pays you to be a white man for a while. Put yourself on the winning side for a change.
John Russell: Is that what you are?
Mendez: Well, a Mexican's closer to it than a White Mountain Apache, I can tell you that!

John Russell after talking Mendez into helping him ambush the Mexican Bandit): And try not to puke. You may have to lie in it for a long time.

Jessie: Can you tell me why we keep trotting after you?
John Russell: Because I can cut it lady.

Favor: One thing you need to learn about white people is that they stick together.
John Russell: They'd better.

ETA: As another poster on this board told me one day, Most of these are from the great Elmore Leonard.