Bite the Bullet (1975)

Candice Bergen: Miss Jones

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• Miss Jones : I've been around a lot of cowhands, one way or another. A cowboy dresses from the top down. The first thing on is his hat. And he undresses from the bottom up. Last thing off... hat. Oh, and another thing - to be a cowpuncher, that don't mean you actually got to go around punching them, you know.

• Miss Jones : Rosie, how many times you been married?

  Rosie : Eleven. Ten without a preacher or license.

  Miss Jones : Well, did you love any of 'em?

  Rosie : Oh, all of 'em! Every one of 'em! The good and the bad. It's a shame to waste all that prime beef on a guy serving three to five in a prison. Do you keep in touch?

  Miss Jones : Oh, he's kind of a lousy letter writer.

  Rosie : A lousy bank robber, too.

• Carbo : All this hardware... I ain't never been in a gunfight.

  Miss Jones : Killing a man don't prove you're a man.

• Miss Jones : For a family who don't know a jackass from a mule, you sure know a lot about the West.

  Jack Parker : We don't have to know about it. We, ah, we own it.

• [Matthews ignores Carbo's challenge for a gunfight] 

  Mister : You done right. A boy lookin' for a reputation is the most dangerous thing alive.

  Norfolk : It certainly wasn't worth dyin' for.

  Miss Jones : What is?

• Reporter : To the West!

  Norfolk : Awesome and inspiring.

  Jack Parker : I don't see what's so inspiring about a flash flood or a blizzard, or a landslide or a sandstorm or a dust storm or any sudden disaster, personal or financial. Today the desert will broil you royal, tomorrow the mountain will freeze you stiff. That's your West: violent, treacherous. Every prairie dog hole is a gold mine, every molehill is a mountain, every creek is a river and everybody you meet is a liar.

  Miss Jones : When you call me that smile, stranger.

• Miss Jones : The people some people marry.