Bite the Bullet (1975)
James Coburn: Luke Matthews
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Quotes
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Luke Matthews : How far is it to town?
The Wood Cutter : Don't know. Never seem to have made it.
Luke Matthews : Well, you don't know much.
The Wood Cutter : Huh?
Luke Matthews : I said you don't know much.
The Wood Cutter : Mister, I don't know a damned thing about nothin'... but I ain't the one who's lost.
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Luke Matthews : You certainly have a knack of provoking a man to violence.
Carbo : All I said was she...
Luke Matthews : It was the way you said it - like it was an insult.
Carbo : Hell, yeah, when a woman does it for money...
Luke Matthews : A man always gets the best of the bargain. Before you take her to bed, she's a thing of beauty. In bed, an angel of mercy. And afterwards, she's a...
Carbo : Whore!
Luke Matthews : ...a pillow piece.
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Carbo : That sonofabitch tried to kill me.
Luke Matthews : Oh, he couldn't'a tried very hard.
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Sam Clayton : Just like old times.
Luke Matthews : Yeah. You start trouble and I start bleedin'.
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Sam Clayton : You know, I'm un-American.
Luke Matthews : What's that?
Sam Clayton : Well, I don't know exactly, except if you're not the best, the first and the greatest - if you don't win, then you're not American.
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Norfolk : And how was the shorter route?
Luke Matthews : [chuckles] Longer.
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Luke Matthews : I want you to tell me the story of your life. Just skip everything up till the last fifteen minutes.
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Luke Matthews : [handing Rosie money for prostitutes] Two of the best for two of the best.
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Luke Matthews : [hugging Rosie] I forgot how good a bad woman feels.
Rosie : Flattery and money will get you anything.
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Luke Matthews : [to young toughs] Don't you know Sam Clayton? Defender of dumb animals? Damsels in distress? Champion of lost causes?
Sam Clayton : How ya' been?
Luke Matthews : Fine, till *you* showed up.
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Luke Matthews : [referring to the motorcycle] How do you start it, how do you make it go, and how do you stop it?
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Luke Matthews : [counting out money from a roll] You're gonna need moving money.
Sam Clayton : [tending to his horse] Who says I'm movin'?
Luke Matthews : Stayin' takes even more... costs ten dollars just to get drunk.
Sam Clayton : I'm gonna stay sober.
Luke Matthews : Fifteen dollars for a hot bath.
Sam Clayton : Guess I just won't bathe.
Luke Matthews : Thirty dollars for an all-night woman.
[Clayton stops, pauses, sticks out his hand for the money]
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Sam Clayton : Aw,who wants the easy life?
Luke Matthews : *I* do.
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Sam Clayton : Who won the Gans - Nelson fight?
Luke Matthews : Gans, by knockout in the 42nd round. Greatest fight I ever saw.
Sam Clayton : [to Norfolk, referring to a previous conversation] Gans! In the 42nd round!