Jill: But... but those were his men.
Harmonica: Yeah.
Jill: And they tried to kill him.
Harmonica: They must've found someone who pays better.
Jill: And you... You saved his life!
Harmonica: I didn't let them kill him, and that's not the same thing.


--Charles Bronson (as Harmonica) in Once Upon a Time in the West

Minister: You'll never what for anything in heaven, Jack. When you go through those Pearly Gates, you'll find everything there... even without asking for it.
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: You say this heaven nice place, huh? You like this place, heaven?
Minister: Yes, it's a beautiful place!
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: Then I tell you what, Preacher. You like it so much, you take my place out there.
[indicates the gallows outside his jail cell]
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: You go to heaven instead of me. What do you say?
Minister: Well now, I'll be ready when the great day comes.
Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack: You not ready now... me not ready, neither!


--Charles Bronson (as Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack) in Drum Beat

Joe Jarrett: Well, you made a mistake: you should have shot off his gun hand.
Matson: It wouldn't make any difference. Go ahead, shoot it off and I'll still get you. You shoot out my eyes, and I'll still find you! If you put a bullet in my heart then I'll make a deal with the devil! I'd trade him for just enough time to come back from hell and kill you! You hear me? I'm gonna kill you!


--Charles Bronson (as Matson) in 4 for Texas

Jamie Wagner: Are you going to bust him?
Chino Valdez: Do you know what it means... bustin' a horse?
Jamie Wagner: Showin' it you can't be thrown.
Chino Valdez: No, that ain't all of it. Bustin' a horse means just exactly that: you bust him. And that takes all the spunk out of a horse... it breaks him. And I'm not gonna bust a Valdez horse.


--Charles Bronson (as ) in Valdez Horses

Jamie Wagner: I ain't never going to get mixed up with women folk.
Chino Valdez: Well, what a man says and what a man does doesn't always end up the same thing.


--Charles Bronson (as ) in Valdez Horses

Major John Reisman: How come you speak German?
Joseph T. Wladislaw: My old man came from Silesia. He didn't speak German, he didn't dig coal. If he didn't dig coal, he didn't eat.


--Charles Bronson (as Joseph Wladislaw) in The Dirty Dozen

Lee Arnold: I'll fly for you, but I want something.
Pancho Villa: What?
Lee Arnold: [motions to Fierro] I want to blow his brains out.
Pancho Villa: I don't think he'll let you do that.
Lee Arnold: Well, then let these men go.
Pancho Villa: All right. How many?
Lee Arnold: How man... all of them! Their officers are dead; they can't hurt you; they don't want to fight any more.
Pancho Villa: No. Just one.
Lee Arnold: One?
Pancho Villa: One. Pick him! Go on, gringo. It's your chance to save one life. Go ahead.
Lee Arnold: [to Fierro] You pick him.
Rodolfo Fierro: [to guards] Let one go!
[they watch as one Colorado vaults the wall]


--Charles Bronson (as ) in Villa Rides

Rollo Lamar: Any of you geniuses know what "apparently" means?
Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith: "Apparently?"
Rollo Lamar: Yeah.
Benny Kelly: Yeah, it means that something that ain't, looks like it is.


--Charles Bronson (as Benny Kelly) in Big House, U.S.A.

Chino Valdez: Anyway, a bunch of Indians stole my horses once. I went along and stole them back. And while they was chasing me, I came off my horse and got run over.
Jamie Wagner: Why didn't they kill you?
Chino Valdez: Hell, boy, they was my friends!


--Charles Bronson (as ) in Valdez Horses

Chino Valdez: Now what the hell is that?
Louise: It's a sidesaddle.
Chino Valdez: A sidesaddle? You mean to tell me you're gonna put that on the side of a horse?


--Charles Bronson (as ) in Valdez Horses