- BIG COUNTRY (1958)
Charles Bickford/Major Terrill: “If there’s anything I admire more than a friend, it’s a dedicated enemy.”
- EL DORADO (1966)
John Wayne/Cole Thornton: I’m looking for a tin star with a drunk pinned to it.”
- HIDALGO (2004)
Viggo Mortensen/Hopkins: “Mister, you can say anything you want about me. I’m going to have to ask you not to talk about my horse that way.”
- HOMBRE (1962)
Paul Newman/John Russell: “Hey, I got a question. Hou you planning to get down that hill?”
- HONDO (1953)
John Wayne/Hondo Lane: “Man ought to do what he thinks is best” PLUS “Everybody gets dead.”
- THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962)
Carleton Young/Maxwell Scott: “No, sir, this is the west. when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
- RIO BRAVO (1959)
John Wayne/John Chance: “It’d be pretty close. I’d hate to have to live on the difference.”
- RIO GRANDE (1950)
Ben Johnson/Sgt. Tyree: “Get it done, Johnny Reb” PLUS “Beans. Nobody ever tell the army that they grow beef around this part of the country?”
- THE SEARCHERS (1956)
John Wayne/Ethan Edwards: “That’ll be the day.”
- SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1959)
John Wayne/Captain Brittles: ” Never apologize, it’s a sign of weakness.”
Victor McLaglen/Sgt. Quincannon: “Laddie, I’ve never gone peaceably anywhere in me life.”