True Grit

Tom Chaney: A gun will say a whole lot quick! Tom Chaney: Everything happens to me, and now I'm shot by a child! 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. 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. Moon: He never played me false until he killed me. Mexican Bob: My wounds healed by themselves - from the inside!

True Grit (1969 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

True Grit (1969 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

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. 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.

True Grit (1969 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

True Grit (1969 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

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…

True Grit (1969 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

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!

True Grit (1969 film), CC BY-SA 4.0