The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Charles Bronson: Bernardo O'Reilly

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• Village Boy 2 : We're ashamed to live here. Our fathers are... cowards.

  [O'Reilly takes the boy over his knee and spanks him] 

  O'Reilly : [harshly]  Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards! You think I am brave because I carry a gun? Well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there's nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery. That's why I never even started anything like that... that's why I never will.

• Chris : Morning. I'm a friend of Harry Luck's. He tells me you're broke.

  O'Reilly : [chopping wood]  Nah. I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire.

• Village Boy 1 : If you get killed, we take the rifle and avenge you.

  Village Boy 2 : And we see to it there's always fresh flowers on your grave.

  O'Reilly : That's a mighty big comfort.

  Village Boy 2 : I told you he'll appreciate that!

  O'Reilly : Well, now don't you kids be too disappointed if your plans don't work out.

  Village Boy 1 : We won't. If you stay alive, we'll be just as happy.

  Village Boy 2 : Maybe even happier.

  Village Boy 1 : Maybe.

• Vin : We heard you got that Salinas thing cleaned up in five weeks.

  O'Reilly : They paid me $800 for that one.

  Vin : And Johnson County in four weeks.

  O'Reilly : They paid me $500 for that one.

  Vin : You cost a lot.

  O'Reilly : [proudly]  Yeah, I cost a lot.

  Chris : The pay is $20.

  [Chris and Vin turn and walk away] 

  O'Reilly : [Calling after them]  $20? Right now, that's a lot.

• Chris Adams : Bernardo O'Reilly; you've been adopted.

  O'Reilly : Yeah, that's my real name. Irish on one side, Mexican on the other... and me in the middle.

• Chris : Nah, leave him alone. It's a free country.

  O'Reilly : And it's his.

• [O'Reilly is teaching the villagers how to shoot] 

  O'Reilly : Miguel, didn't I tell you to squeeze? Hm? Just like when you're milking a goat, Miguel.

  Miguel : It's that I get excited!

  O'Reilly : Well don't get excited! Now this time squeeze. Slowly, but squeeze. All right now, squeeze.

  [Miguel shoots] 

  O'Reilly : *Squeeze*! I'll tell you what. Don't shoot the gun. Take the gun like this, and you use it like a club, all right?

• Chris : There's a job for six men, watching over a village, south of the border.

  O'Reilly : How big's the opposition?

  Chris : Thirty guns.

  O'Reilly : I admire your notion of fair odds, mister.