Western Movie Quotes

• You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Gun, Two

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• When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

  George Carlin

  Movie, Horse, Kids

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

  Clint Eastwood

  Western Films, Cowboy Movie, My Cowboy

  "'Tis The Season For Hollywood Blockbusters". Interview with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. December 3, 2008.

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• I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Western Films, Cowboy Movie, Reasonable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

  Wyatt Earp

  Tombstone, Bad Ass, Ass

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• Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

  John Wayne

  Running, Men, Wells

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.56, Taylor Trade Publications

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• When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Good And Bad, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• What we got here is a failure to communicate.

  Paul Newman

  Movie, Top 100, Communicate

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  I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

  John Wayne

  Hands, People, Insulted

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.64, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

  Clint Eastwood

  Boys, Dying, Cowboy Movie

  "Fictional character: Josey Wales". "The Outlaw Josey Wales", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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• It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

  Clint Eastwood

  Men, Hell, Killing

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• If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

  Clint Eastwood

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  "Fictional character: Nick Pulovski". "The Rookie", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Every man has got to know his limitations.

  Clint Eastwood

  Military, Men, Classic Films

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

  Clint Eastwood

  Long, Waiting, Mind

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Lost Youth, Quiet

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• A man's got to know his limitations.

  Harry Callahan

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear in their hands, adorned with lots of feathers. That image has stayed in some people's minds. Many think we're either visionaries, `noble savages,' squaw drudges or tragic alcoholics. We're very rarely depicted as real people who have greater tenacity in terms of trying to hang on to our culture and values system than most people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.

  Aaron Brookner

  Treasure, Different Families, Stuff

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Every time someone does a Western movie, people flock to it. It's like, we're continually programming to people who are least likely to watch us. People in Nebraska aren't watching things on the computer, they're watching television. Why aren't we programming things for them? We only program things that appeal to New York and Los Angeles and in many ways spit on the rest of the country.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Country, New York, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.

  James Hillman

  Hands, White, Understanding

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• In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.

  Amos Oz

  Black And White, Israel, Europe

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• [David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the movies began to talk, you had audiences that would be offended by certain things, and there was a cleaning-up of the way people spoke."

  Keith Carradine

  People, Would Be, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Book, Creative, Lonesome Dove

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