Far and Away (1992)

Tom Cruise: Joseph Donnelly

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Quotes 

• [about Grace] 

  Shannon Christie : She's got an awfully large chest to be goin' to church.

  Joseph Donnelly : Shannon, all chests are equal in the eyes of the Lord.

• Joseph Donnelly : I tried to prove myself to you, But I know nothing of Books, or Alphabets, or Sun, or Moon, or... All I know is Joseph Loves Shannon

• Shannon Christie : Pretend you love me.

  Joseph Donnelly : I pretend I love you.

  Shannon Christie : I pretend I love you, too.

• Shannon Christie : Joseph?

  Joseph Donnelly : What?

  Shannon Christie : Am I beautiful at all?

  Joseph Donnelly : [whispering]  I've never seen anything like you in all of my livin' life.

  Shannon Christie : Good!

• [Joe Donnelly dies] 

  Danty Duff : God bless your soul... poor Joe Donnelly...

  [everyone is quiet, they turn and Joe comes back to life] 

  Joseph Donnelly : All saints preserve us! We thought you died, Da!

  Joe Donnelly : I did son, I passed away... I've come back to tell you something. You're an especially odd boy.

  Joseph Donnelly : You came back from the dead to tell me that I'm odd?

• Shannon Christie : No! Joseph, please come back. Joseph, no! Don't leave me alone. Please. I loved you. I loved you from the first time I saw you.

  Joseph Donnelly : I've often wondered about that.

• Joseph Donnelly : Tell me! Tell me ya like my hat!

  Shannon Christie : You're not wearing a hat.

  Joseph Donnelly : [yelling]  Say it! Say you like my hat!

  Shannon Christie : You're not wearing a hat!

• Shannon Christie : May I ask, what are you doing, sitting at my table?

  Joseph Donnelly : I'm eating your chocolate cake.

• Shannon Christie : Look, you've got your land.

  Joseph Donnelly : But all the land in the world means nothing to me without you.

• Coniff : I think the prettiest girl in this factory, the one with the prettiest eyes, and the prettiest red hair, is Joseph's sister - if you don't mind me saying so Joseph.

  Joseph Donnelly : Well, ya can say what you like lad. But I warn ya, that redhead has a bite that stings.

  Flynn : [to Shannon]  Get to work!

  Shannon Christie : Get your filthy hands off me you ugly animal!

  Flynn : That'll cost you a day's wage. Go ahead. Insult me again.

  [spits] 

  Shannon Christie : [weakly]  Pig.

  [women laugh] 

  Flynn : There goes tomorrow. Done?

  Shannon Christie : [looks over to Joseph, who jestures "No! Work!", returns to work, but spins around]  Take Friday as well, you spineless little fraction of a man.

  Joseph Donnelly : [laughs and smiles]  Bite lads. Bite.

• Joseph Donnelly : You're a corker, Shannon. What a corker you are.

• Joseph Donnelly : [after a bad argument with Shannon]  Shannon! Shannon!

  [yells] 

  Joseph Donnelly : Shannon!

  Molly Kay : Oh, why don't you shag her and get it over with?

  Joseph Donnelly : She's... my sister!

  Molly Kay : And I'm your mother.

• Shannon Christie : You'll never win this duel with Steven. We've all seen you handle a gun. Boy, I am giving you your freedom!

  Joseph Donnelly : I'm not going to a distant world. I'm of Ireland, and I'll stay in Ireland until I die!

  Shannon Christie : That's in about five hours.

• Joseph Donnelly : Maybe this is my destiny. On his death bed, my father told me he'd be watching me from up above. I wonder now if his spirit might be near, guiding me along.

  Shannon Christie : If he bumps into Mr. McGuire up there, tell him I want my spoons back.

• Joseph Donnelly : Captain Moonlight!

• Joseph Donnelly : I've no wish to fight ya.

• Joseph Donnelly : You're not in Ireland any more! You arrogant bastard!

• [to his drunken brothers, Colin and Paddy, after they insulted him] 

  Joseph Donnelly : Shag off, the pair of you. There's a goat over there. Go improve your love life.

• Joseph Donnelly : [about Grace]  Grace isn't a tramp. She's a dancer in the Burley-cue.

  Shannon Christie : That's not dancing. That's kicking her knickers up. I suspect if you asked her to, she'd kick her knickers off.

  Joseph Donnelly : Oh, maybe she would.

  Shannon Christie : Has she?

  Joseph Donnelly : Let me see... I'm trying to remember.

  Shannon Christie : Well, think hard! If there's any brains left in your head!

• Joseph Donnelly : [upon seeing Shannon in the Oklahoma settlers camp]  I'm cursed. Oh Lord, I'm cursed.