Hombre (1967)

Diane Cilento: Jessie

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• [Grimes has just delivered an ultimatum to Mendez and the others] 

  John Russell : Hey. I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill?

  Grimes : Now you wait a minute! I'm getting back down the same way I came up! (Begins running back down the hill. Russell shoots him as he is running)

  Jessie : [as Grimes crawls away after being shot]  Cicero Grimes, meet John Russell.

• Jessie : That soldier would have helped you and you know it.

  John Russell : I didn't ask for any.

  Jessie : He didn't even have a gun.

  John Russell : That's his business he don't wanna carry one.

  Jessie : It takes a lot to light a fire under you, doesn't it.

  John Russell : If it's alright with you, lady, I just didn't feel like bleeding for him. And even if it isn't alright with you.

• John Russell : The dead are dead. You ought to bury them.

  Jessie : I'm sure that's good advice. Trouble is, Mr. Russell, I think you feel the same way about the living.

• Jessie : And we got him a marble headstone. It had his name on it, and underneath, we had them put, "In the Fullness of His Years." Is that all right with you?

  John Russell : I'd settle for that on my own slide.

  Jessie : Well, what do you figure yours is going to read?

  John Russell : Shot Dead, probably.

  Jessie : Don't people take to you, Mr. Russell?

  John Russell : It only takes one who doesn't.

• Billy Lee : [notices Jessie standing by Braden's body after Russell kills him]  Uh, Jessie, you want something to cover Braden up?

  Jessie : [shaking her head ruefully]  No, just let him lie there.

• Jessie : [noticing Braden with Grimes' gang]  Frank, what are you doin'?

  Braden : Goin' bad, honey.

• Braden : Hey, what's going on?

  Jessie : I'm moving you out. I want you to take your socks, your cigar stubs, your long johns, and your nickel-plated sheriff's badge, and amble back down the hall to your own room.

  Braden : I like it here.

  Jessie : Can't quite remember how you got squatter's rights in here, anyhow. Seems to me you came by one night to ask for an extra blanket and stayed a year.

• John Russell : Glad to buy you dinner.

  Jessie : There's a lot of men who'll do that, Mr. Russell.

  John Russell : Well, I'd just as soon make it breakfast.

• Jessie : Can you tell me why we keep trotting after you?

  John Russell : Because I can cut it lady.

• Mrs. Delgado : I don't think this meat is fresh.

  Jessie : Well, don't think about it. Just cook it.

  Mrs. Delgado : But it smells funny. You think it'll be all right?

  Jessie : Yeah, if you put a lot of chili peppers into it. I wouldn't eat it myself on a bet.

• Jessie : I don't turn your pants pockets inside out. I don't say no in the middle of the night. When you got the stomach ache, I'm ready with the bicarbonate of soda. When you get a cold, I'm the one who brings up the croup kettle. I know I'm not twenty anymore, but that's not too bad either, because over the years I have learned how to control my temper.

• Jessie : What did you get married for? So you got the right to sleep in the same bed?

  Billy Lee : I guess.

  Jessie : Well, that part of it isn't going to last, believe it or not. She'll get fat and you'll get old. Then what?

  Billy Lee : I'm not worried about then. I'm worried about now. You try living with the 24-hour bellyaching and see how you like it.

  Jessie : That's the price you pay if you want it where you can nudge it in the night.