The Train Robbers (1973)

Ben Johnson: Jesse

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• [last lines] 

  Grady : Where you goin'?

  Lane : Where the hell do you suppose? To rob a train!

  Jesse : Rob a train?

  Grady : It's something to do!

• The Pinkerton Man : Her name is Lilly, with two "L's." Matt Lowe was never married. Better luck next time!

  Jesse : Lilly.

  Grady : With two "L's."

  Jesse : One of 'em must stand for "liar."

• [First scene -- Lane has summoned his gun-toting friends to a rendezvous] 

  Grady : Alright, what's it all about, Jess?

  Jesse : Beats me. All Lane said was meet him here at the train stop. It'd be worth it.

  Calhoun : To him or us?

  Grady : Oh, what difference does it make? It's something to do, isn't it?

• Lane : [referring to Mrs. Lowe]  You reckon she's drowning?

  Jesse : [dryly and unconcerned]  Sure does look like it.

• Grady : Any women in this town?

  Jesse : One.

  Grady : Good. We can fight over her.

• [first lines] 

  Ben Young : Train's late, Jesse.

  Jesse : It'll be along. Get your clothes on.

• Jesse : Talking that woman out of going to the railroad - you might have talked her into getting herself killed.

  Lane : You let me worry about the woman.

• Jesse : Hold it! I hate to cross you, Lane.

  Lane : Then don't.

  Jesse : I've got to. We just run from a fight. That's a bad habit for a man to get into that makes his way with a gun.

  Lane : There are 20 of them back there, Jesse.

  Jesse : I'd say they were a little shorthanded.

• Jesse : I've been mad at you ever since I've known you.

  Grady : Jesse, that's 10 years. That's an awful long time to go around hating a man.

  Jesse : I never said I hated you.

  Grady : Well, there ain't exactly any love between us.

  Jesse : I damn sure ain't sweet, if that's what you mean.

• Jesse : That's the trouble with young guns. It's mighty tempting to cross over to the wild side.

• Jesse : Oh, Grady, you're a pain in the neck.

  Grady : Oh, hell, everybody knows that.

• Jesse : What about your women?

  Grady : What about them?

  Jesse : Don't tell me you don't run them as much as you used to.

• Jesse : Lane says this is the closest way out. Besides, we know the ground.

  Grady : Yeah, we could get buried in it, too.

  Jesse : Hell, a man can't live forever.

  Grady : Not around Lane, he can't. Oh, hell, come to think of it, it's the best way, anyway.

  Jesse : What's that?

  Grady : You and me, Jesse, we can't get old. What the hell use are we going to be to anybody in a rocking chair?

  Jesse : That's a long ways down the road, Grady.

  Grady : The hell it is.

  Jesse : You're not one damn day older than you was the first time I ever met you.

  Grady : Well, not outside, I ain't, but it's inside that counts. You know, time was I could get drunk for a week, maybe two. Now I go on a bender for six or seven days and I get the blind staggers so bad, I gotta get me to my bed. Yeah, when a man can't hold his liquor, that's the first sign.

• Calhoun : We can go together. Find some women. Get drunk.

  Jesse : That beats the hell out of cold coffee.