Western Movie Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

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

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

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

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

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.

[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."

Every man has got to know his limitations.

A man's got to know his limitations.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

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

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

All Quiet on the Western Front.