Top 5 Lines From Great Westerns
The movie quotes post inspired a commenter by the ID of Monk to post: “My favorite movie quote is “I’m Your Huckleberry” in the movie Tombstone, said by Doc Holiday, played by Val Kilmer.
Which, in turn, inspires me to post some more memorable quotes from Westerns. The western is, possibly, the quintessential Hollywood genre. What other genre has been so durable?
A durable genre begets durable quotes. So without further ado, some durable quotes from memorable westerns. Keep in mind though that this list doesn’t pretend to be complete or unbiased, these are just a few of my favorites.
Guess what classic character from which classic western said it, or go straight to the answers at the bottom of the page:
1. “When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.” — The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
2. “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
3. “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining…….”
Clint Eastwood in “Outlaw Josey Wales”
4. “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges. ”
-Treasure of the Sierra Madre
5. a: “Why do you want to die Grandfather?”
b: “Because there is no other way to deal with the white man my son. Whatever else you can say about them, it must be admitted, you cannot get rid of them.”
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1. Eli Wallach as Tuco, from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
2. Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy, from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
3. From The Outlaw Josey Wales. I can’t remember the name of the actor or character, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Clint Eastwood who said it. If anyone knows, please post. Thanks!
4. The bandit from Treasure of the Sierra Madre. If anyone remembers the actor’s name, please post!
5. a) is Dustin Hoffman as Dan Crabb, b) Chief Dan George as Old Lodge Skins from Little Big Man.
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Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat in Treasure of the Sierra Madre
and Trinidad Silva as Raul Hernandez in the epic UHF
“Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking Badgers!”
Bronson, in Once Upon a Time in the West:
Bronson: “Where’s my horse?”
Leader of the three Gunmen: “Looks like were one horse shy!”
Bronson: “No. You brought two too many.”
Then you jump first.
No, I said.
What’s the matter with you?
I can’t swim.
Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.
Robert Redford, as the Sundance Kid, and Paul Newman, as Butch Cassidy
“Outlaw Josey Wales”
Senator: The war’s over. Our side won the war. Now we must busy ourselves winning the peace. And Fletcher, there’s an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils.
Fletcher: There’s another old saying, Senator: Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.
John Vernon played Fletcher.
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