Memorable Quotes from Strother Martin
13 quotesChoices and Consequences in Confinement
Captain
We got a couple men here doing 20 spots. We got one that's got all of it. We got all kinds, and you gonna fit in real good. Of course, unless you get rabbit in your blood and you decide to take off for home. You give the bonus system time and a set of leg chains to keep you slowed down just a little bit, for your own good. You'll learn the rules. Now, it's all up to you. Now I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean son-of-a-bitch. It's all up to you.
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The Ethics of Bounty in Sports
Joe McGrath
You can't put a bounty on a man's head.
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Scouts Arrive to Evaluate Tough Team
Joe McGrath
They've come tonight.. to scout the Chiefs, the toughest team in the Federal League. Not this... bunch of... pussies.
[stomps out of locker room]
Reggie Dunlop
Scouts?
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Emergency Response to Liberty's Injury
Floyd
It's Liberty! He - he's hurt!
Floyd
It's Liberty.
Doc Willoughby
Whiskey, quick.
Person on street
Here, sir.
Doc Willoughby
Dead.
[takes a drink, turns Valance's body over with his foot]
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Failure to Communicate
Captain
You're gonna get used to wearin them chains after a while, Luke, but you never stop listenin to them clinkin'. Cause they're gonna remind you of what I've been sayin - for your own good.
Luke
Wish you'd stop bein so good to me, Cap'n.
Captain
Don't you ever talk that way to me. Never! Never! What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week - which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
[hits Luke with his blackjack, knocking him down]
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Struggle with Personal Image and Contracts
Jim Ahern
I look like some cock-sucking faggot in this thing.
Joe McGrath
Have you seen Reg or Braden?
Jim Ahern
Joe, I don't care man. Enough is enough. Nowhere in my contract does it say I gotta make a fool out of myself. Am I right?
Joe McGrath
Have you seen Dunlop or Braden–
Johnny Upton
I'm gonna flash em, Joe!
Joe McGrath
Aw, now, son...
Johnny Upton
I'm gonna walk down that stinkin aisle, I'm gonna open up this faggot bathrobe and wiggle my dick at em!
Joe McGrath
You will not.
Johhny Upton
Yes I am, Joe, and you know why? Because I want you to have a heart attack and die so that we never have to do this shit again. You and your fucking fashion shows.
Joe McGrath
It's good publicity! You boys just haven't been bringing in the crowds like you used to.
Johnny Upton
I'm gonna wiggle it at em, you cheap bastard. I'm telling you, ya better be prepared, because when I yank it out, everybody in that audience with the exception of my wife is gonna be runnin for the exits!
Announcer
Ensemble #8, as we watch Chiefs defenseman, Johnny Upton, modelling #8...
Joe McGrath
Joe McGrath, just checking on Dunlop–
[on the phone]
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Recognition and the Weight of Service
Captain
It says here you did real good in ]. Bronze Star, Silver Star, couple of Purple Hearts. Sergeant. Then came out the same way you went in... buck private.
[[World War II|the war]
Luke
I was just passing time, Captain.
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Assessing the Strength of an Opponent
Coffer
You rode with, uh, Pike. What kind of man are we up against?
Thornton
The best. He never got caught.
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Journey to Mexico Begins
Coffer
From here on, it's Mexico, Mr. Thornton.
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Conflict Over a Steak in the West
Tom Doniphon
That's my steak, Valance.
[Valance has tripped Rance in the diner, causing him to spill a tray of food]
Liberty Valance
You heard him, Dude. Pick it up.
[laughing]
Ransom Stoddard
No!
Tom Doniphon
Pilgrim, hold it. I said you, Valance; you pick it up.
Liberty Valance
Three against one, Doniphon.
Tom Doniphon
My boy, Pompey; kitchen door.
Floyd
I'll get it, Liberty!
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Tension and Conflict Among Characters
Coffer
I can nail him.
Thornton
I said wait.
T.C.
What if they slip out the back?
Coffer
It's covered, ya two-bit, redneck peckerwood.
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Consequences of Running from Authority
Captain
You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice, you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set cause you're gonna get your mind right. And I mean RIGHT. Take a good look at Luke. Cool Hand Luke?
[To the other inmates]
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The Decline of Notorious Outlaws
Sheriff Ray Bledsoe
You know, you should have let yourself get killed a long time ago when you had the chance. See, you may be the biggest thing that ever hit this area, but you're still two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you're still nothing but two-bit outlaws on the dodge. It's over, don't you get that? Your time is over and you're gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose where.
Percy Garris
I'm not crazy; I'm just colorful. That's what happens when you live 10 years alone in Bolivia: you get colorful...
[He is shot dead]
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