"[Giving battle instructions to his messengers on horseback] Tell the gunners to shoot the horses first. The Takeda cavalry cannot fight without horses."

"Noburo Shimizu - Hara Masatane"

"I know it is difficult. I was for a long time the lord's double. It was torture. It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another. Often I wanted to be myself and free. But now I think this was selfish of me. The shadow of a man can never desert that man. I was my brother's shadow. Now that I have lost him, it is as though I am nothing."

"The shadow of a man can never stand up and walk on its own."

"Jinpachi Nezu - Tsuchiya Sohachiro"

"A serious illness can change even a man's heart."

"I am wicked, as you believe. I am a scoundrel. I banished my father and I killed my own son. I will do anything to rule this country. War is everywhere. Unless somebody unifies the nation and reigns over us, we will see more rivers of blood and more mountains of the dead."

"To occupy Kyoto, to fly my flags in the capital, has been my long-cherished dream. But... if something should happen to me, do not pursue that dream. Remember: my death must not be made known. Keep it a secret, for at least three years. Guard our domain. Never move from it. Do not move! If you ignore my order and set out to attack, our Takeda clan will be no more. Heed my words! This... is my final wish."

"Sen Yamamoto - Oyamada Nobushige"

"Paul Rae - Emmett Quincy"

"Nicholas Sadler - Repentant condemned man"

"Dakin Matthews - Colonel Stonehill"

"Hailee Steinfeld - Mattie Ross"

"Barry Pepper - "Lucky" Ned Pepper"

"Domhnall Gleeson - Moon (The Kid)"

"Retribution."

"Jeff Bridges - U.S. Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn"

"Matt Damon - Texas Ranger LaBoeuf"

"Punishment comes one way or another."

"Josh Brolin - Tom Chaney"

"And "futile," Marshal Cogburn, "pursuit would be futile"? It's not spelled "f-u-d-e-l.""

"[Final voice-over, as an adult, after learning of Rooster's death] I had the body removed to our plot, and I have visited it over the years. No doubt people talk about that. They say, "Well, she hardly knew the man. Isn't she a cranky old maid?" It is true, I have not married. I never had time to fool with it. I heard nothing more of the Texas officer LaBoeuf. If he is yet alive, I would be pleased to hear from him. I judge he would be in his seventies now, and nearer eighty than seventy. I expect some of the starch has gone out of that cowlick. Time just gets away from us."

"I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world as it is, is vexing enough."

"[Opening voice-over, as an adult] People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood, but it did happen. I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down and robbed him of his life and his horse and two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band. Chaney was a hired man and Papa had taken him up to Fort Smith to help lead back a string of Mustang ponies he had bought. In town, Chaney had fallen to drink and cards and lost all his money. He got it into his head he was being cheated and went back to the boarding house for his Henry rifle. When Papa tried to intervene, Chaney shot him. Chaney fled. He could have walked his horse, for not a soul in that city could be bothered to give chase. No doubt Chaney fancied himself scot-free, but he was wrong. You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free, except the grace of God."