"Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross... it just happens... And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothin' but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water."

"There's gotta be a hundred years of law experience sitting at this very table. My staff has flunked the bar exam six times."

"How do you know when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving."

"You go for a man hard enough and fast enough, he don't have time to think about how many's with him; he thinks about himself, and how he might get clear of that wrath that's about to set down on him."

"Nicholas Sadler - Repentant condemned man"

"Paul Rae - Emmett Quincy"

"Dakin Matthews - Colonel Stonehill"

"Domhnall Gleeson - Moon (The Kid)"

"Barry Pepper - "Lucky" Ned Pepper"

"Hailee Steinfeld - Mattie Ross"

"Josh Brolin - Tom Chaney"

"Matt Damon - Texas Ranger LaBoeuf"

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

"Retribution."

"Punishment comes one way or another."

"Condemned Indian: Before I am hanged, I would like to say— [executioner places hood over his head]"

"Unrepentant condemned man: Well, I killed the wrong man is the which of why I'm here. Had I killed the man I meant to, I don't believe I'd have been convicted. I see men out there in that crowd that's worse than me. [to executioner] Okay."

"Repentant condemned man: [sobbing] Ladies and gentlemen, beware, and train up your children in the way that they should go. You see what has become of me because of drink. I killed a man in a trifling quarrel over a pocket knife! If I had received good instruction as a child … I would be with my wife and children today. I do not know what is to become of them, but I hope and pray that you will not slight them and compel them to go into the low company!"

"I would not pay three hundred and twenty-five dollars for winged Pegasus!"

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

"[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."

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

"[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."

"If he [Tom Chaney] is not in a shallow grave somewhere between here and Fort Smith, he is gone, long gone. Thanks to Mr. LaBoeuf we missed our shot! He barked and the birds have flown. Gone, gone, gone! Lucky Ned and his cohort, gone! Your fifty dollars, gone! Gone the whiskey — seized as evidence. The trail is cold if there ever was one. I'm a foolish old man who has been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop. Mr. LaBoeuf can wander the Choctaw nation for as long as he likes. Perhaps the local Indians will take him in and honor his gibberings by making him chief! Sister, you may go where you like. Our engagement is terminated. I bow out."

"[LaBoeuf has been talking about malum prohibitum and malum in se] I'm struck that LaBoeuf has been shot, trampled, and nearly severed his tongue, and not only does he not cease to talk but he spills the banks of English."

"It's funny, isn't it? Only the white man wants everything put in writing. And only then so he can use it against you in court. You know, among the Indians a promise is good enough."

"Kate Burton - Donna Ralston"

"Treat Williams - Larry Ralston"

"Lizzy Caplan - Sonja Ralston"

"Clémence Poésy - Rana"

"Kate Mara - Kristi Moore"

"Amber Tamblyn - Megan McBride"

"James Franco - Aron Ralston"

"Every Second Counts."

"There is no force more powerful than the will to live."