"[to a woman riding a motorcycle in shorts] Hey where did you get those pants? [the womans pulls out a hammer, pounds his truck and rides off] You freak! I love you, come back!"

"Go... fuck... a duck."

"Gordon Tootoosis - One Stab"

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legends."

"It's hard to tell of happiness, time goes by and we feel safe too soon."

"She was like the water that freezes inside a rock and breaks it apart. It was no more her fault than it is the fault of the water when the rock shatters."

"Tristan died in 1963. The moon of the popping trees. He was last seen up in the North Country, where the hunting was still good. His grave is unmarked, but it does not matter. He had always lived in the borderland anyway, somewhere between this world and the Other."

"I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. It was those who loved him most who died young. He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them."

"Indians! Indians were the issue in those days. I can assure you, gentlemen, there is nothing quite so grotesque as the meeting of a child with a bullet; or an entire village slaughtered while sleeping. That was the Government's resolution of that particular issue and I have seen nothing in its behavior since then that would persuade me that it has gained either in wisdom, common sense, or humanity."

"Forever turned out to be too long Tristan."

"Tristan, I have nowhere to send this letter and no reason to believe you wish to receive it. I write it only for myself. And so I will hide it away along with all the things left unsaid and undone between us."

"Stab speak English?! Ha! He wouldn't lower himself to speak English would you Stab?!"

"Please excuse my father. It makes him feel young and powerful to treat us like idiot children."

"I followed all of the rules, man's and God's. And you, you followed none of them. And they all loved you more. Samuel, Father, and my... even my own wife."

"He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them."

"After the Fall from Innocence the Legend begins."

"The men of the Ludlow family. A woman's grace brought them together. Then her passion tore them apart."

"Brad Pitt - Tristan Ludlow"

"Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow"

"Aidan Quinn - Alfred Ludlow"

"Julia Ormond - Susannah Fincannon-Ludlow"

"Henry Thomas - Samuel Ludlow"

"Karina Lombard - Isabel "Isabel II" Decker/Isabel Decker Ludlow"

"Sekwan Auger - Young Isabel II Decker"

"Christina Pickles - Isabel Ludlow"

"Paul Desmond - Decker"

"Tantoo Cardinal - Pet Decker"

"Robert Wisden - John T. O'Banion"

"John Novak - James O'Banion"

"Kenneth Welsh - Sheriff Tynert"

"Bart the Bear - The Bear"

"My mother died of pneumonia when I was just a kid. My father had kept their wedding cake in the freezer for ten whole years. After the funeral, he gave it to the yardman. He tried to act cheerful, but he could never be consoled by the little stranger he found in his house. Then, one day, hoping to begin a new life away from the scene of all his memories, he moved us from Texas to Ft. Dupree, South Dakota."

"Gail Threlkeld - Girl"

"Bryan Montgomery - Boy"

"John Carter - Rich man"

"Gary Littlejohn - Sheriff"

"Alan Vint - Deputy"

"Ramon Bieri - Cato"

"Warren Oates - Holly's Father (Mr. Sargis)"

"Sissy Spacek - Holly Sargis"