Boxcar Bertha (1972)
David Carradine: Big Bill Shelly
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Quotes
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Joe Cox : Listen, did anyone know you were comin' up this way?
'Big' Bill Shelly : Hell no.
[Sarcastically]
'Big' Bill Shelly : Just-just my police escort. Didn't you hear the sirens?
Joe Cox : Now, don't come on smart with me, boy. They got a price on your head. You and them nuts you busted out with! Whores and niggers, my God, ain't that a nice image for unionism?
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Boxcar Bertha : I want somethin' I ain't ever had.
'Big' Bill Shelly : How you gonna get that?
Boxcar Bertha : Guts and luck.
'Big' Bill Shelly : Luck! Hell, luck is bein' a Vanderbilt or a Carnegie.
Boxcar Bertha : Just grabbin' somethin' good when it comes by.
'Big' Bill Shelly : Sure, enough, honey.
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'Big' Bill Shelly : Which way are you headed?
Boxcar Bertha : I don't know.
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Boxcar Bertha : Bill, I wanna thank you. You're a real straight shooter.
'Big' Bill Shelly : Hey, whoa, honey, I'm not that straight shooter.
Boxcar Bertha : Huh?
'Big' Bill Shelly : I mean, you ain't even seen me shoot.
Boxcar Bertha : Huh?
'Big' Bill Shelly : I'll at least light a fire for you. You probably don't even have any matches. Do you?
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Rake Brown : [Snickers, reading a newspaper article] Listen to this, "The notorious labor radical and Bolshivek spy, Big Bill Shelly, along with certain of his desperate confederates, broke out of Shelby County Penal Farm, assaulting a guard."
'Big' Bill Shelly : What's so funny about that?
Rake Brown : I was laughing at the spy part. You don't look like no spy to me. I always thought they wear glasses.
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Boxcar Bertha : I'd do anything you want. Wanna quit, we'll quit. We'll go away.
'Big' Bill Shelly : I ain't a quitter. If you wanna leave, there are no chains on you, honey.
Boxcar Bertha : You dumb.
'Big' Bill Shelly : What do you mean?
Boxcar Bertha : I ain't leavin'.
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Boxcar Bertha : It looks like it's really over for you now, huh?
'Big' Bill Shelly : Hell no. Until I'm dead.
Boxcar Bertha : You don't have to rush it.
'Big' Bill Shelly : It's appointed, each man to die. Judgement
Boxcar Bertha : You don't have to rush it.
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'Big' Bill Shelly : Don't believe anything the cops tell ya... even if its something good.
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'Big' Bill Shelly : Hey, Bertha!