Into the West (1992)

Ciarán Fitzgerald: Ossie

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Quotes 

• Tito : We can't go to jail.

  Ossie : Why not?

  Tito : We're much too young. We can go to a home, though.

  Ossie : We have a home, Tito.

  Tito : I know, but this is a home where they don't letcha out.

  Ossie : That's a jail.

• Ossie : What's his name?

  Grandfather : Um, he's called Tír na nÓg.

  Ossie : What does it mean?

  Grandfather : It's the land of eternal youth.

  Ossie : But why's he called that?

  Grandfather : He's from Tir na nÓg, the land under the sea.

• Tito : Why are you talkin' to the horse?

  Ossie : Why not?

• Ossie : I don't want to grow up?

  Tito : Why?

  Ossie : I don't want to get old like O'Sheen.

  Tito : What?

  Ossie : I don't want to turn into dust.

• Ossie : [seeing mother's gravestone]  Why did she die on my birthday?

• Ossie : What did the princess look like?

  Grandfather : Close your eyes. Now do you see a beautiful woman?

  Ossie : Yea.

  Grandfather : Well, that's her. That's the beautiful princess.

• Ossie : [Ossie and Tito in their flat, sitting on the back of the horse and watching a Western on tv]  Was the old Wild West in Ireland?

  Papa Reilly : There still is. On the other side of the mountains.

  Ossie : Were the travellers the Indians?

  Papa Reilly : No. We're the cowboys.

• Grandfather : [lifting Ossie down from the horse's back]  Come on. Time for bed.

  Ossie : I don't want to get old.

  Grandfather : Ah, you won't get old Ossie. Not yet.

• Ossie : Are we on the news?