True Grit (1969)

Share this quote on facebook I won't rest until Tom Chaney is barking in Hell.

Share this quote on facebook If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people.

Share this quote on facebook If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney, with a mark on his face like banished Cain, I would not advise others how to do so.

Share this quote on facebook I also notice that the men of Texas gouge their mounts with great brutal spurs and cultivate their hair like lettuce!

Share this quote on facebook I want Tom Chaney hanged for killing my father! It's little to me how many dogs and senators he's killed in Texas.

Share this quote on facebook Those horses can't outrun Little Blackie! They're loaded down with fat men and iron!

Share this quote on facebook I'm going! And it's not because you say I can't, and it's not because you say I can. I paid good cash money to be here, and I'm on my own business! Now, we'll have no more talk about it.

Share this quote on facebook My name is Mattie Ross, of Near Dardanelle in Yell County. My family owns property, and I don't know why I'm being treated like this!

Share this quote on facebook Rooster Cogburn is no good friend of mine! He led us straight into your hands, and now he has left me with a gang of cut-throats! Is that what they call "grit" in Fort Smith? We call it something else in Yell County.

Share this quote on facebook Papa's marker is not what was ordered. I will make that wool-hatted fool of a stone man change it.

Share this quote on facebook Mr. Rat, I have a writ here that says you are to stop eating Chen Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now, It's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of same! [to Mattie] See? He doesn't pay any attention to me. [shoots the rat] You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You either kill him or let him be.

Share this quote on facebook Baby sister, I was born game, and I mean to go out that way.

Share this quote on facebook General Price don't belong to me. He just rooms with me. Cats don't belong to nobody. 'Course, I depend on him.

Share this quote on facebook A fella that carries a big-bore Sharps carbine might come in handy… if we get jumped by elephants, or buffalo, or something.

Share this quote on facebook By God! She reminds me o' me!

Share this quote on facebook LaBoeuf, if you get crosswise of me you'll think a ton of brick had fell on you! You'll wisht you was back at the Alamo with Travis!

Share this quote on facebook It's a shame, a kid like Moon losing his leg. He's too young to be hoppin' around on a raw peg. Loves to dance too much, and sport!

Share this quote on facebook DAMN a man that whistles!

Share this quote on facebook Young fella, if you're looking for trouble, I'll accommodate you. Otherwise, leave it alone.

Share this quote on facebook Ned doesn't go around killing people for no reason. Had he a reason, he'd kill them.

Share this quote on facebook I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?

Share this quote on facebook Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

Share this quote on facebook Damn that Texican! When you need him, he's dead.

Share this quote on facebook We've got to get you to a doctor or you'll be deader than he is!

Share this quote on facebook The French is 'La Bourf'. I say 'La Beef'.

Share this quote on facebook I only take one step at a time. That's why I was given two feet.

Share this quote on facebook You can't take men by watching them run away!

Share this quote on facebook I served under General Kirby Smith. And I don't have to hang my head when I say it.

Share this quote on facebook I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker!

Share this quote on facebook She draws him like a gun! [referring to Mattie's constant invocation of her lawyer's name]

Share this quote on facebook I never busted a cap on a woman or anybody much under sixteen. But it's enough that you know that I'll do what I have to do.

Share this quote on facebook Most girls like little play-pretties. But you like guns, don't you?

Share this quote on facebook All the Parmalees is touched, but Harold's the worst… no, their Ma's the worst, then comes Harold's brother Farrell… but they're all good shots.

Share this quote on facebook If that girl don't stay healthy, you don't neither, understand? And you don't get paid!

Share this quote on facebook I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!

Share this quote on facebook Tom Chaney: A gun will say a whole lot quick!

Share this quote on facebook Tom Chaney: Everything happens to me, and now I'm shot by a child!

Share this quote on facebook Colonel Stonehill: Most people around here know of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he is a relative of yours.

Share this quote on facebook Colonel Stonehill: I just received word that a young girl fell head first down a fifty foot well on the Towson Road. I thought perhaps it was you.

Share this quote on facebook Moon: He never played me false until he killed me.

Share this quote on facebook Mexican Bob: My wounds healed by themselves - from the inside!

Share this quote on facebook [Marshal Cogburn is cross-examined by a defense attorney]
Attorney: How many men have you shot since you became a marshal, Mr. Cogburn?
Rooster: I never shot nobody I didn't have to.
Attorney: That was not the question. How many?
Rooster: Uh, shot, or killed?
Attorney: Oh, let us restrict it to killed, so that we may have a manageable figure!
Rooster: Well, twelve to fifteen, stopping men in flight and defending myself.
Attorney: Twelve to fifteen? So many that you cannot keep an accurate count! I have examined the record, Mr. Cogburn. A much more accurate figure is available. Come now — how many?
Rooster: Counting them two Whartons… twenty-three.
Attorney: Twenty-three men in four years. That makes about six men a year!
Rooster: It's a dangerous business.

Share this quote on facebook [Moon & Emmett Quincy were arrested in previous scene; Moon was shot in the leg during their capture]
Moon: Oh, my leg hurts!
Rooster: I'll bet it do, sonny-boy. Now you just sit right still so it don't bleed so much.
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Quincy: I don't know any Ned Pepper. What's he look like?
Rooster: Short, feisty fella. He's got a messed-up lower lip. I shot him in it.
Quincy: In the lip? What was you aiming at?
Rooster: His upper lip.

Share this quote on facebook Rooster: What we want to do is get them inside that dugout. I'll shoot the last man through the door, and then we'll have 'em over a barrel!
La Boeuf: You'll shoot them without a call?
Rooster: Well, it'll give 'em to know our intentions is serious! [La Boeuf & Mattie give him disapproving glares] Aw, well, I'll holler down after I shoot and see if any of 'em want to be taken alive — but when they won't, we'll shoot 'em as they come out the door.

Share this quote on facebook Mattie: [drinking water from river near camp] That tastes like iron!
La Boeuf: You're lucky to be where water's so handy. I've seen the time I've drank out of a filthy hoofprint and I was glad to get it.
Rooster: If ever I meet one of you Texas waddies who ain't drunk from a hoofprint, I think I'll… I'll shake their hand, or buy them a Daniel Webster cigar! [he looks over La Boeuf's horse] How long you boys down there been mounted on sheep?
La Boeuf: Go ahead and have your little joke. But I'll tell you one thing: that little fella there will still be running when that big American stud of yours is winded and collapsed.
Rooster: Ha — sheep! Heh, heh…

Share this quote on facebook [Rooster brings four dead outlaws to Indian Police outpost.]
Rooster: Boots, I got Hayes and some youngster outside, along with Moon and Quincy. I want you to bury 'em.
Boots: They're dead?
Rooster: Well, I wouldn't want you to bury 'em if they wasn't!

Share this quote on facebook Mattie: I'm here to take you back to Fort Smith and hang you!
Chaney: And I think I will not go. Now how do you like that?
Mattie: Well, there's a posse of officers up the hill who'll force you to go!
Chaney: How many officers?
Mattie: I'd say right around fifty — and they mean business! So you just walk up that hill right in front of me.
Chaney: I believe I'll oblige those officers to come after me.
Mattie: If you refuse to go with me, I'll have to shoot you.
Chaney: Is that so? Well, you better cock your piece. [Mattie pulls back the lever on the revolver to load it. She doesn't pull it all the way.] All the way back, until it locks!
Mattie: [cocks revolver properly] I know how to do it. Now you mean to say that you won't go with me on your own free will?
Chaney: You just got it the other way around, now you will follow me!

Share this quote on facebook Chaney: I didn't think you'd do it!
Rooster: [From the top of the hill] Sis! Where are you!
Mattie: I'm down here! I got Chaney!
Chaney: I just didn't think you'd do it! One of my short ribs is broke!
Mattie: You killed my father when he was trying to help you! You're just a piece of trash! You also killed a senator in Texas when he was sitting on a porch swing!
Chaney: Everything happens to me and now I'm shot by a child!
Mattie: I'll shoot you again if you don't get up!

Share this quote on facebook [Ned Pepper, Mexican Bob, and the Parmalee brothers meet Rooster Cogburn blocking the road.]
Rooster: Where's the girl, Ned?
Ned: She was in wonderful health when last I saw her. I can't answer for her now.
Rooster: You'll answer for her now! Where is she?
La Boeuf: [from far off, in outlaw camp] Rooster, make a run for it! I've got Mattie! Chaney too!
Ned: Well, Rooster, will you give us the road? I have business elsewhere.
Rooster: Farrell, you and your brother stand clear. I've got no interest in you today. Stand clear and you won't get hurt.
Harold: Cock-a-doodle-doo! [other outlaws laugh]
Ned: What's your intention, Rooster? You think one on four is a dog-fall?
Rooster: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned, or see you hanged at Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
Ned: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
Rooster: Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

Share this quote on facebook [In a scuffle with Chaney, Mattie falls into a rattlesnake pit.]
Mattie: Help me! Please help me! I'm in the pit! There's a snake down here, and skeletons!
Chaney: [leaning head over edge of pit] I warrant there'll be another one before long — a little, spindly one! How do you like it?
Mattie: [sobbing hysterically] Oh, help me, help me… please, HELP ME!
Chaney: You say you don't like it?

Share this quote on facebook The strangest trio ever to track a killer.

Share this quote on facebook The strangest trio ever to track a killer. A fearless, one-eyed U.S. marshal who never knew a dry day in his life... a Texas ranger thirsty for bounty money... and a girl still wet behind the ears who didn't care what they were or who they were as long as they had true grit.

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