The Magnificent Seven

"Tomás: Only the dead are without fear."

"[chopping firewood] I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire."

"I admire your notion of fair odds, mister."

"If you can't forget about him, why don't you ride sidesaddle?"

"Yeah, I'm one of us, all right."

"Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards! You think I'm brave because I carry a gun? Well, your fathers are much braver, because they carry responsibility! For you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends, and it twists them until finally, it buries them under the ground. And there's nobody who says they have to do this--they do it because they love you, and because they want to! I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee what will ever come of it... This is bravery! That's why I never even started anything like that. That's why I never will."

"See? I told you! You see your fathers?"

"Undertaker: I've always treated every man the same – just as another future customer."

"Hilario: We will fight with guns if we have them. If we don't... with machetes, axes, clubs, anything!"

"Sotero: Neighbors, I drink to our friends. They armed us, fought at our side, and will forever live in our hearts."

"I'll tell you what I can do: I can kill the first man who so much as whispers a word about giving up. The very first man, so help me, I'll blow his head off!"

"The Old Man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We'll always lose."

"I never rode shotgun on a hearse before. Gettin' up there don't bother me. It's stayin' up there that I mind."

"I took a job in a grocery store. Fella says I'll make a crackerjack clerk. Crackerjack."

"You know, I've been in some towns where the girls weren't very pretty. Matter of fact, I've been in some towns where they were downright ugly. But this is the first time I've ever been in a town where there are no girls at all — 'cept little ones."

"You don't happen to have an older, grateful sister, do you?"

"Reminds me of that fella back home who fell off a ten-story building. As he was falling, people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good." Heh, so far, so good."

"We deal in lead, friend."

"The reason I understand your problem so well is that I walked into the same trap myself. Yeah. First day we got here I started thinking, maybe I could put my gun away. Settle down, get a little land, raise some cattle. The things these people know about me would work to my credit, it wouldn't work against me. I... just didn't want you to think you were the only sucker in town."

"Fella I once knew in El Paso, one day he took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him the same question, why? He said it seemed to be a good idea at the time."

"The days of good hunting are over. Once there was horses, cattle, gold, fruit from the trees... no more. Now I must hunt with a price on my head, Rurales at my heels."

"Enough! We get the rest when we come back."

"If God didn't want them sheared, He would not have made them sheep."

"Generosity. That was my first mistake. I leave these people a little bit extra and they hire these men to make trouble."

"Shows you — sooner or later you must answer for every good deed."

"You hear that? We're trapped! All forty of us!"

"Your friends, they don't like you very much anymore. You force them to make too many decisions. With me, only one decision: do what I say."

"What happens to these people will happen whether I kill you first or not."

"(whispering) Just a little gesture, huh? To show these people who the real boss is. You go, then I give you the guns back. I know you won't use those guns against me. Only a crazy-man makes the same mistake twice."

"Once I rob a bank in Texas. Your government get after me with a whole army. Whole army! One little bank. It's clear to me, the meaning? In Texas, only Texans can rob banks."

"(dying words) You came back... to a place like this. Why? A man like you...why?"

"A man comes to him... because he respects him... 'cause he'd be proud to work with him. And he makes me look like TWO CENTS with some damn kid's game!"

"We ride for days to get to this nothing in the middle of nowhere. We are ready to risk our lives to help you, and you? You hide from us. Hide. From us. But it's a different story when you're in danger, huh? You might lose your precious crops. Then you flock to us, huh? Well, we are here, my compadres and I. Here we stay. And you? You prove to us that you are worth fighting for!"

"You know what? They'll make up a song about you and this hat. Villages like this, they make up a song about every big thing that happens. They'll sing it for years."

"When I brought back the news, you should have seen the look I got from Britt. And Chris. And they have seen a thing or two in their time, and-and done them, too. They aren't men you can impress easily, oh, no! When they looked at me... I knew I was one of them at last. (after spying alone in Calvera's camp.)"

"I could have told you they'd sell us out! Farmers. Farmers! No honor, no loyalty, no... all they care about is their precious crops and the miserable dirt they dig in. I hate 'em. I hate 'em all."

"Yes. Yes, I am one of them. But who made us the way we are, hmm? Men with guns. Men like Calvera, and... men like you. And now me. So what do you expect us to be?"

"Fight. You must fight. Fight!"

"You must excuse them. They are farmers here. They are afraid of everyone and everything. They are afraid of rain, and no rain. The summer may be too hot, or the winter too cold. If the sow has no pigs, the farmer is afraid he may starve. If she has too many pigs, he is afraid she may starve."

"They are farmers. They talk of nothing but fertilizer and women. I have never shared their enthusiasm for fertilizer. As for women, I became indifferent when I was eighty-three."

"At my age, a little excitement is welcome."

"Don't worry. Why would he kill me? Bullets cost money."

"The fighting is over. Your work is done. For them, each season has its tasks. If there were a season for gratitude, they'd show it more."

"All that's what's on top. What's underneath?"

"A dollar bill always looks as big to me as a bedspread."

"Chris, I'd hate to die a sucker. We didn't come out here just to keep an eye on a lot of corn and chili peppers. There was something else all the time, wasn't there?"

"Well, I'll be damned."

"Yeah, that's exactly what I mean! Aztec treasure!"

"We come cheaper by the bunch."

"There comes a time to turn Mother's picture to the wall and get out!"