Hombre (1967)

Paul Newman: John Russell

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• Grimes : Mister, you've got alot of hard bark on you walkin' down here like this. Now, I owe you. You put two holes in me.

  John Russell : Usually enough for most of 'em.

  Grimes : Don't try it again, that Vaquero is more than a fair hand.

  Grimes : You got the money?

  John Russell : Guess I brought my dirty laundry down by mistake.

  Grimes : Let me see it.

  John Russell : Look for yourself.

  Grimes : [opens bag, pulls out a handful of clothes]  Well now, what d'ya suppose hell's gonna look like?

  John Russell : We all die, just a question of when.

• Audra Favor : I can't imagine eating a dog and not thinking anything of it.

  John Russell : You even been hungry, lady? Not just ready for supper. Hungry enough so that your belly swells?

  Audra Favor : I wouldn't care how hungry I got. I know I wouldn't eat one of those camp dogs.

  John Russell : You'd eat it. You'd fight for the bones, too.

  Audra Favor : Have you ever eaten a dog, Mr. Russell?

  John Russell : Eaten one and lived like one.

  Audra Favor : Dear me.

• [Grimes has just delivered an ultimatum to Mendez and the others] 

  John Russell : Hey. I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill?

  Grimes : Now you wait a minute! I'm getting back down the same way I came up! (Begins running back down the hill. Russell shoots him as he is running)

  Jessie : [as Grimes crawls away after being shot]  Cicero Grimes, meet John Russell.

• Mendez : Hombre, which name today, which do you want?

  John Russell : Anything but bastard will do.

• Mexican Bandit : [coming up the hill, waving a red handkerchief tied to a stick]  Hey, hombre!

  John Russell : [Russell finishes loading his rifle and goes to see what the Mexican Bandit wants] 

  Mexican Bandit : Look amigo, how close you come!

  [indicating the wound on his stomach] 

  John Russell : I tried to do better; I think you moved.

  Mexican Bandit : You can be sure I move! How do you prefer them, eh, tied to a tree?

  John Russell : That'd be nice.

  Mexican Bandit : You like to pull the trigger, eh?

  John Russell : I can do it again for you.

• Jessie : That soldier would have helped you and you know it.

  John Russell : I didn't ask for any.

  Jessie : He didn't even have a gun.

  John Russell : That's his business he don't wanna carry one.

  Jessie : It takes a lot to light a fire under you, doesn't it.

  John Russell : If it's alright with you, lady, I just didn't feel like bleeding for him. And even if it isn't alright with you.

• John Russell : [when the Mexican Bandit comes up the hill to demand the money or they will shoot Mrs. Favor]  Shoot her.

• John Russell : The dead are dead. You ought to bury them.

  Jessie : I'm sure that's good advice. Trouble is, Mr. Russell, I think you feel the same way about the living.

• John Russell : I got one question. How you gonna get down that hill?

• Jessie : And we got him a marble headstone. It had his name on it, and underneath, we had them put, "In the Fullness of His Years." Is that all right with you?

  John Russell : I'd settle for that on my own slide.

  Jessie : Well, what do you figure yours is going to read?

  John Russell : Shot Dead, probably.

  Jessie : Don't people take to you, Mr. Russell?

  John Russell : It only takes one who doesn't.

• Doris : You're just saying that so we won't go down there.

  John Russell : They'll kill you both. That's why I'm saying it.

• Mendez : You can be white, Mexican, or Indian, but I think it pays you to be a white man for a while. Put yourself on the winning side for a change.

  John Russell : Is that what you are?

  Mendez : Well, a Mexican's closer to it than a White Mountain Apache, I can tell you that!

• John Russell : Hit something, Mendez, first the men, then the horses.

  Mendez : I don't know. Just to sit here and wait to kill them?

  John Russell : If there was some other way, we'd do it.

  Mendez : Maybe we can keep going and try to outrun them.

  John Russell : If you run, they're gonna catch you, they're gonna kill you. You believe that more than you believe anything.

  Mendez : All right.

  John Russell : And try not to puke. You may have to lie in it for a long time.

• Lamar Dean : [Russell has climbed to the top of the stage]  What are you doin' up there?

  John Russell : Gettin' my things.

  Lamar Dean : You figurin' on going some place?

  John Russell : Why stay here?

  Lamar Dean : Just how far do you thin you're gonna get?

  John Russell : That's to find out.

  Lamar Dean : [takes one water bag]  Now how far did you say you were gonna get?

  Mendez : Leave us some water!

  Lamar Dean : [shoots the remaining water bag]  Now how far?

  John Russell : Oh about as far as Delgado's.

  Lamar Dean : [stops, turns and looks back]  What does that mean?

  John Russell : Maybe if we all get thirsty we'll go to Delgado's and get some *mezcal*.

• John Russell : You better put down that gun. You got two ways to go, put it down or use it. Even if you tie me, you're gonna be dead.

• John Russell : Glad to buy you dinner.

  Jessie : There's a lot of men who'll do that, Mr. Russell.

  John Russell : Well, I'd just as soon make it breakfast.

• Jessie : Can you tell me why we keep trotting after you?

  John Russell : Because I can cut it lady.

• Favor : One thing you need to learn about white people is that they stick together.

  John Russell : They'd better.