The Misfits (1961)

Clark Gable: Gay Langland

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• Gay : Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

• Gay : What makes you so sad? I think you're the saddest girl I ever met.

  Roslyn : You're the first man that ever said that. I'm usually told how happy I am.

  Gay : That's because you make a man feel happy.

  [He tries to kiss her, but she demurs] 

  Roslyn : I don't feel that way about you, Gay.

  Gay : Well, don't get discouraged girl, you might.

• [Last lines] 

  Roslyn : I'll leave tomorrow, okay?

  Gay : God bless you, girl.

  Roslyn : Gay, if there could be one person in the world, a child who could be brave from the beginning. I was scared to, when you asked me. But, I'm not so much now, are you?

  Gay : No.

  Roslyn : How do you find your way back in the dark?

  Gay : Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it. It'll take us right home.

• Gay : Honey, nothing can live unless something dies.

• Guido : Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?

  Roslyn : Once I walked to the edge of town; doesn't look like there's much out there.

  Gay : Everything's there!

  Roslyn : Like what?

  Gay : The country!

  Roslyn : Well, what do you do with yourself?

  Gay : Just live.

  Roslyn : How does anyone "just live"?

  Gay : Well, you start by going to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is; throw stones at a can, whistle.

• Gay : Damn 'em all. They changed it, changed it all around. Smeared it all over with blood. I'm finished with it. It's like roping a dream now. I just gotta find another way to be alive, that's all. If there is one anymore.

• Gay : You know, sometimes when a person don't know what to do, the best thing is to just stand still.

• [Gay is giving Roslyn a ride back to town] 

  Gay : You're a - real - beautiful - woman. It's almost kind of an honor sittin' next to ya'. You just shine in my eyes. That's my true feelin' Roslyn.

• Roslyn : Did you ever think about gettin' married again?

  Gay : Oh, I think about it; never in daylight.

• Gay : Let's just live.

• Gay : I hope your sober.

  Perce : Man I have won buckets of money in towns I couldn't even remember the names of!

• Roslyn : I've known of so-called happily married couples. One time, the wife was in the hospital - to have the baby. And the husband calling me up. I mean, he was calling - *me*. They're still supposed to be happily married.

  Gay : I guess you believe in true love.

• Gay : Honey, when you smile, it's like the sun comin' up.

• Gay : I just need to find another way to feel alive, that's all.

• Gay : Did you ever hear the story about the city man out in the country? And he sees this fella sittin' on his porch. So he says, "Mister, could you tell me how I could get back to town?" The fella says, "No." "Well, could you tell me how to get to the Post Office?" The fella says, "No." "Well, do you know how to get to the Railroad Station?" "No." "Boy," he says, "you sure don't know much, do ya?" The fella says, "No. But I ain't lost."

• Roslyn : You're a mechanic too?

  Isabelle Steers : Him? He's a cowboy!

  Gay : How'd you know?

  Isabelle Steers : I can smell, can't I.

  Gay : Hey, you can't smell cows on me.

  Isabelle Steers : I can smell the look on your face, cowboy. But, I love every miserable one of you. Of course, you're all good for nothin' as you well know.

• Gay : Hey, you really go all out, don't cha? Even the way you eat. I like that. Women generally pick.

  Roslyn : [smiles]  You like me, huh?

• Roslyn : Listen, if you want to go somewhere, I don't mind being alone.

  Gay : Do I look like I want to leave?

  Roslyn : I just mean I want you to do what you feel like.

  Gay : You ain't kiddin'. Even when you're kiddin' you ain't kiddin'. No. You make me feel peaceful.

• Roslyn : I never really saw anything grow before. How tiny those seeds were and yet they know they were supposed to be lettuces.

  Gay : [laughs]  You say the darnedest things. You know that, don't you?

• Gay : We start out doin' somethin', meaning no harm, something that's naturally in us to do. But, somewhere along the line, it gets changed around into something bad! Like dancin' in a nightclub. You started out just wanting to dance, didn't ya? But, little by little it turns out that people ain't interested in how good you danced, they're gawkin' at you with somethin' entirely different in their minds. And they turn it sour, don't they? I coulda looked down my nose at you too. Showin' yourself off at nightclubs for so much a night. But, I took my hat off to ya. Cause I know the difference.

• Gay : Boy, I'm beginin' to smell wages all over you.

• Gay : What's eatin' you?

  Guido : Just my life.

• Guido : Boy, am I in the right place?

  Roslyn : Have you seen the vegetable garden? It took Gay about a week just to get the soil turned over.

  Gay : Yeah, I moved the grass. Sprayed them flowers too. Oh, I got your windows unstuck. Fireplace don't smoke anymore.

  Guido : Roslyn, you must be a magician. The only thing this boy ever did for a woman was get out the ice cubes.

• Guido : She's kinda hard to figure out, you know. One minute she looks kinda dumb, brand new like a kid. And the next minute - she sure moves though, don't she?

  Gay : Mmm. She's real prime.

• Roslyn : What if, someday, you suddenly turn around and you don't like me anymore? Like before, when Perce got hurt, you started to give me a look. I know that look and it scares me, Gay. I couldn't be with strangers anymore.

  Gay : [Drunkenly]  Honey, honey, I got a little mad, that's all. That don't mean I didn't like ya. Didn't your Papa ever spank you and then pick you up and give you a big kiss? He did, didn't he?

  Roslyn : He was never there long enough. Strangers spanked me for kicks. Oh, Gay, love me, love me!

• Gay : I can't put on that this is all as bad as you make it. All I know is everything else is wages. I herd these horses to keep myself free. So I'm a free man.

• Gay : Don't want nobody makin' up my mind for me, that's all.

• Gay : Somehow it all got changed around. I'm doin' the same thing I always did. It's just that they changed it around.

• Roslyn : uh, you never had any idea, huh?

  Gay : Nah, you know in those days I thought you got married and that was it, but nothing is it, not forever.

• Guido : Which one was that?

  Gay : Susan. Swell sport, that woman.

• Gay : I'm dyin' for some fresh air and no people - male or female. Why don't we take out for the mountains. Maybe we can even do a little mustangin' out there.

• Roslyn : Me, I never finished high school.

  Gay : Well, that's real good news.

  Roslyn : You don't like educated women?

  Gay : They're alright. Always wantin' to know what you're thinkin', that's all.

• Roslyn : Who was he? Maybe they know him.

  Isabelle Steers : Darling, you can't go around lookin' for a man

  Gay : What'd - he take off?

  Isabelle Steers : No. Not exactly.

  [laughs] 

  Isabelle Steers : He just never came back.

• Gay : Honey, a kind man can kill.

  Roslyn : No! He can't.

• Gay : If it's bad, maybe you have to take a little of the bad with good. Else, you'll be runnin' for the rest of your life.

• Gay : It's better than wages, ain't it? - - I said it's better than wages, ain't it?

  Perce : Sure, anything's better than wages.

• [repeated line] 

  Gay : Get that horse, cowboy!

• Gay : I never thought of it, but, I guess the fewer you kill, the worst it looks.

• Gay : Honey, a kind man can kill.

  Roslyn : No, he can't.

• Gay : Just come out in one piece, now, 'cause you gotta go mustangin' tomorrow.

• Roslyn : How do you feel?

  Perce : [after riding and being thrown by a rode bull]  How do I feel? Well, like I was kicked by a bull.

  Gay : Oh, I want no part of that bull except on a plate, medium rare.