Tom Doniphon:
[Valance has tripped Rance in the diner, causing him to spill a tray of food] That's *my* steak, Valance.
Liberty Valance: [laughing] You heard him, Dude. Pick it up.
Ransom Stoddard: No!
Tom Doniphon: Pilgrim, hold it. I said you, Valance; *you* pick it up.
Liberty Valance: Three against one, Doniphon.
Tom Doniphon: My boy, Pompey; kitchen door.
[Valance looks and sees Pompey at the door holding a rifle]
Floyd: I'll get it, Liberty!
[Doniphon kicks Floyd in the face as he bends down to retrieve the tray]
--Strother Martin (as Floyd) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Liberty Valance: [laughing] You heard him, Dude. Pick it up.
Ransom Stoddard: No!
Tom Doniphon: Pilgrim, hold it. I said you, Valance; *you* pick it up.
Liberty Valance: Three against one, Doniphon.
Tom Doniphon: My boy, Pompey; kitchen door.
[Valance looks and sees Pompey at the door holding a rifle]
Floyd: I'll get it, Liberty!
[Doniphon kicks Floyd in the face as he bends down to retrieve the tray]
--Strother Martin (as Floyd) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Percy Garris:
I'm not crazy; I'm just colorful.
--Strother Martin (as Percy Garris) in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
--Strother Martin (as Percy Garris) in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Percy Garris:
That's what happens when you live 10 years alone in Bolivia: you get colorful...
[is shot]
--Strother Martin (as Percy Garris) in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
[is shot]
--Strother Martin (as Percy Garris) in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Mattie Ross:
Do you know a Marshal Rooster Cogburn?
Col. G. Stonehill: Most people around here have heard of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he's a relative of yours.
--Strother Martin (as Col. G. Stonehill) in True Grit
Col. G. Stonehill: Most people around here have heard of Rooster Cogburn and some people live to regret it. I would not be surprised to learn that he's a relative of yours.
--Strother Martin (as Col. G. Stonehill) in True Grit
Mattie Ross:
Now I'm sure you'll find a buyer for those ponies very soon.
Col. G. Stonehill: I have a tentative offer of ten dollars a head from the soapworks at Little Rock.
Mattie Ross: It seems such a shame to render such spirited horseflesh into soap.
Col. G. Stonehill: I'm confident the deal will fall through.
--Strother Martin (as Col. G. Stonehill) in True Grit
Col. G. Stonehill: I have a tentative offer of ten dollars a head from the soapworks at Little Rock.
Mattie Ross: It seems such a shame to render such spirited horseflesh into soap.
Col. G. Stonehill: I'm confident the deal will fall through.
--Strother Martin (as Col. G. Stonehill) in True Grit
[Col. Stonehill is frustrated at Mattie's bargaining]
Col. G. Stonehill: I will pay a total of two hundred dollars to your father's estate when I have in my hand a letter absolving me of all liability from the beginning of the world to date!
--Strother Martin (as Col. G. Stonehill) in True Grit
Col. G. Stonehill: I will pay a total of two hundred dollars to your father's estate when I have in my hand a letter absolving me of all liability from the beginning of the world to date!
--Strother Martin (as Col. G. Stonehill) in True Grit
Captain, Road Prison 36: Now, I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean sum-bitch.
--Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke
--Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke
Captain, Road Prison 36: You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right.
--Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke
--Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke
Captain: What we got here is... failure to communicate.
--Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke
--Strother Martin (as Captain, Road Prison 36) in Cool Hand Luke