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Lonely are the Brave Quotes

"Life can never cage a man like this!"

1962 · 1h 47m
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74
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20 quotes
Embracing Freedom and Adventure
Jack Burns ] we took off, too.
[[Time]
Temptations and Struggles of a Preacher
Rev. Hoskins Ah, the temptations of the flesh. I fought em my whole life through.
Prisoner Then how come you're in here, Reverend?
Rev. Hoskins Well, I said I fought em, I didn't say I fought em off. Sometimes I lost. But believe me, it takes a lot more to tempt a preacher than it does you stumblebums in here. When I lost, I lost big!
Prisoner Are you a real preacher, Reverend?
Rev. Hoskins Well now, let's look at it this way. I always had the urge to preach. And if you got the urge, you're halfway home.
Prisoner What kept you from getting all the way?
Rev. Hoskins My temptation was women.
The Benefits of a Good Drunk
Jerry Bondi Jack, what are you going to do?
Jack Burns Well, about every six months, I figure I owe myself a good drunk. It rinses your insides out, sweetens you breath and tones up your skin.
Chasing the Unseen in Desperation
Sheriff Morey Johnson You'd think we're chasing a ]... an invisible horse and an invisible cowboy. Harry, throw me that canteen. I haven't got enough spit left to wet a stick of gum.
[[ghost]
The Burden of Fences in Open Land
Jack Burns A westerner likes open country. That means he's got to ] fences. And the more fences there are, the more he hates them.
[[hate]
Jerry Bondi I've never heard such ] in my ].
[[nonsense; [life]
Jack Burns It's true though. Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the ] they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespassing, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead! Do you know what I mean?
[[signs]
Identity Crisis in a Modern World
Desk sergeant You mean to say you got no identification at all?
Jack Burns That's right.
Desk sergeant No draft card, no social security, no discharge? No insurance, no driver's license, no nothing?
Jack Burns No nothing.
Desk sergeant Look, cowboy, you can't go around with no identification. It's against the ]. How are people going to know who you are?
[[law]
Jack Burns I don't need a card to figure out who I am. I already know.
Kirk Douglas Reflects on His Best Film
Quotes about Lonely Are the Brave * ], who had used his clout to get the movie made, and considers it his best film, as quoted in The Films of Kirk Douglas (1972) by Tony Thomas, p. 184
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Confrontation Over Trouble and Caution
Paul Bondi Be careful, Jack. Don't make any ].
[[trouble]
Jack Burns Trouble's what I came here to fix up.
The Dilemma of Freedom and Capture
Jerry Bondi Maybe you'd be better off if they caught you.
Jack Burns Maybe, but I'd like to put it off for as long as possible.
Facing Consequences of Choices Made
Jack Burns * Spoken to Guiterrez
Defiance in the Face of Challenge
Jack Burns This fellow wants ], I'm glad to accommodate him, do it with one arm behind my back. Any of you boys interfere, I'll use both arms.
[[action]
Rejection of Conventional Relationships
Jerry Bondi ] you me, if it didn't take men to make babies I wouldn't have anything to do with any of you!
[[Believe]
Reflections on Change and Freedom
Jack Burns * Opening line, to his ] as he watches jet contrails in the ].
[[horse; [sky]
Questioning Reality in Uncertain Times
Paul Bondi Are you sure you didn't get kicked in the head?
Jack Burns What do you mean?
Paul Bondi You act like a man who thinks he's going to break out of jail.
A New Look from Unwelcome Company
Paul Bondi What happened to your ]?
[[face]
Jack Burns Oh, a bunch of guys I ran into down at the saloon gave it a new look. I guess they didn't like the old one.
The Struggle of Individuality in Modern Life
Quotes about Lonely Are the Brave It happens to be a point of view I ]. This is what attracted me to the story — the difficulty of being an ] ]. ] gets more and more complex and convoluted. Young people are not ] with what's going on — and they're right. The character in Lonely Are the Brave had that quality. He didn't want to belong to this day and age. It's difficult to buck the system. That's the tragedy of it.
[[love; [individual; [today; [Life; [happy]
The Illusion of a Perfect World
Jerry Bondi Jack, I'm going to tell you something. The ] that you and Paul live in doesn't exist. Maybe it never did... out there is the real world. And it's got real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. And you either go by the ] or you lose. You lose everything.
[[world; [rules]
Jack Burns You can always keep something.
Anticipation of an Old Friend's Arrival
Jerry Bondi I was expecting you, Jack. Isn't that odd? I heard a ] and I knew it was your horse.
[[horse]
The Burden of Loneliness and Love
Jack Burns I didn't want a house. I didn't want all those pots and pans. I didn't want anything but you. It's ]'s own ] I didn't get you.
[[God; [blessing]
Jack Burns Cause I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts. Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him. A guy like that, he'd kill a woman like you. Because he couldn't love you, not the way you are loved.
The Consequences of Losing Control
Jack Burns Take it easy. Temper like that and one of these days you'll find yourself riding through town with your belly to the sun, your best suit on and no place to go but ].
[[hell]