Firecreek (1968)

Henry Fonda: Larkin

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• Bob Larkin : It's a lesson I learned a long time ago. A man worth shootin' is a man worth killin'.

• Evelyn Pittman : It's obvious you and your men are hired killers down from the northern range wars.

  Bob Larkin : We work in the open. Eat and drink with the ranchers who hire us - as much respected as anyone in the country.

  Evelyn Pittman : Don't quibble any fine line with me, Mr. Larkin. You're as dishonest as any common road bandit.

  Bob Larkin : I'm not ashamed of the part I play. There's not a territorial border we cross where there's men waitin'... hopin' I can take them on... waitin' to call themselves Larkin men.

  Evelyn Pittman : You're admitting your only importance is collecting men who don't care whether they live or die... who only live for the moment.

  Bob Larkin : It's been a long road to make a name men will follow. You'll get no apology from me.

  Evelyn Pittman : It won't be long before you'll be running out of borders. You'll come full circle against the law that made you move on.

  Bob Larkin : You tie me up pretty good, Evelyn.

  Evelyn Pittman : Why fight against times changing? Why not join in changing them.

  Bob Larkin : Then I'll be like all the rest. Today I'm one of the few. I lead. That's important to me.

• Bob Larkin : [to Evelyn, defending his continued choice of the outlaw life]  I can't gamble with bein' nobody. I been that! It doesn't work for me!

• Bob Larkin : Your so-called town sheriff and me are quite a bit alike.

  Evelyn Pittman : How do you see that?

  Bob Larkin : We're both ridin' a greased pig - nothin' to hold on!

• Bob Larkin : You don't take after your Grandfather much in the way of talkin'. Not that I much complain when a woman keeps her mouth shut.

  Evelyn Pittman : I find no complaint when a man does the same.

• Bob Larkin : You're missin' church.

  Evelyn Pittman : It's not the first time.

• Bob Larkin : I usually figure my women. You come harder.

  Evelyn Pittman : I'm not your women.

  Bob Larkin : Just wasn't makin' any sense to me? Somebody like you winding up in this - cemetery of a town?

• Bob Larkin : Strange feeling lyin' here. I kinda suddenly been - left naked. No defenses.

• Bob Larkin : You're livin' further in the past than I am.

• Evelyn Pittman : Get out.

  Bob Larkin : You're not sleepin'.

  Evelyn Pittman : Naturally, I'm not.

  Bob Larkin : May I come in?

• Bob Larkin : You know, Evelyn, I've known a lot of women. Been with a lot.

  Evelyn Pittman : Is that supposed to excite me?

• Bob Larkin : Where you find no law, you set your own. We tried him. Found him guilty.

• Bob Larkin : You couldn't do some quiet drinkin' and get some sleep.

  Norman : Well, now, you gotta be fair, Bob. Drew didn't figure on no fuss bein' made over a squaw! None of us did.