Flicka Quotes

Flicka is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Flicka completed its run in 1970.

It features Kevin Halloran as producer, Aaron Zigman in charge of musical score, and J. Michael Muro as head of cinematography.

Flicka is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Flicka is 95 minutes long. Flicka is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Tim McGraw as Rob McLaughlin, Maria Bello as Nell McLaughlin, Danny Pino as Jack, Dallas Roberts as Gus, Ryan Kwanten as Howard McLaughlin, Kaylee DeFer as Miranda Koop, Jeffrey Nordling as Rick Koop, and Nick Searcy as Norbert Rye.

Flicka Quotes

Tim McGraw as Rob McLaughlin

• (Tim McGraw) "You're not protecting her, you're crippling her and she'll end up being as useless as that dang mustang."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Flicka isn't useless. She wants to learn."
• (Tim McGraw) "No, she doesn't. You want something that doesn't exist. It's time you see her for what she is."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "I know what she is."
• (Tim McGraw) "How do you know a dang thing about that creature?"
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Because we're the same."

• (Tim McGraw) "Norbert, give me a horse."
• (Maria Bello) "Two horses."
• (Nick Searcy) "Y'all need to calm down."
• (Maria Bello) "No, we're not gonna calm down 'til we find our daughter."

• (Tim McGraw) "Last one home is naked first."

• (Tim McGraw) "I didn't see the vet bill."
• (Maria Bello) "Does someone wanna grab this last burger?"
• (Tim McGraw) "How much?"
• (Maria Bello) "You know what I've been thinking about lately? If quitters never win, why are you supposed to quit while you're ahead?"
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Or, how good can a bedtime story be if it's supposed to put you to sleep?"
• (Maria Bello) "Right."
• (Tim McGraw) "How much?"
• (Maria Bello) "$1,648.32."
• (Tim McGraw) "$1,600? That's just unacceptable."
• (Maria Bello) "Well, I'll speak to the horses."
• (Tim McGraw) "I don't remember my daddy ever giving horses shots. They were healthy, they took care of themselves. Ain't that right, Gus?"
• (Dallas Roberts) "Oh, sure. Back then, horses mucked their own stalls, nailed on their own shoes, even chipped in with the rent money."

• (Tim McGraw) "You should go back."
• (Maria Bello) "Not a chance."

• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "But you said if I don't get back into school then --"
• (Tim McGraw) "Yes, that's what I said and I meant it."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "So Dad sent them your essay."
• (Tim McGraw) "Told 'em I didn't know much about writing, but I sure as heck know about the west and so does my daughter and it's right there in her essay. Every opinionated, ornery, hot-blooded part of it."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "What did they say?"
• (Maria Bello) "What does anyone say to your father?"
• (Maria Bello) "Yes, sir."

• (Tim McGraw) "Help me understand something, Katie. He said he gave you the topic to your final essay in advance, and you turned in a blank paper. Not one word, and two hours for the exam."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "I wrote it in my head-just didn't put it down."
• (Tim McGraw) "In your head."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Wouldn't have made a difference anyway. They just want us to spit back exactly what they wanna hear. I have an opinion, it's just not their opinion."
• (Tim McGraw) "Well, their opinion is that you should repeat the year, just throw it away. Do you realize what this family does without so that you can go to a private school? Truck's passing 200,000 miles. Well, let's see if it'll do another 50. The barn roof's about to blow away. We'll patch it again for the umpteenth time and all so you can go to a fancy boarding school. But I'll go along because your mother wants you to go to college."
• (Maria Bello) "Hey, your father wants it, too."
• (Tim McGraw) "Well, now we'll have to worry if she'll even graduate."

• (Tim McGraw) "How bad is the horse? Go back and put her down."
• (Danny Pino) "She'll hear the shot."
• (Tim McGraw) "She'll think its thunder."
• (Danny Pino) "No she won't. Look, Katie's smart. She sees things. Little details most people ignore. The ones that make a difference."
• (Dallas Roberts) "She'll know it's Flicka."
• (Tim McGraw) "I can't let that animal suffer. I'll do it myself."

• (Tim McGraw) "Norbert. It's your lucky day."
• (Nick Searcy) "Oh? Is that right?"
• (Tim McGraw) "You ready to meet a miracle on four legs?"
• (Tim McGraw) "Three year-old stallion, been savin' him just for you. He's somethin', ain't he, honey?"
• (Maria Bello) "Mm, beauty."
• (Nick Searcy) "Yeah, I can't use anymore quarter horses. I mean, any profit and middleman in horses is fading faster than a mountain sunset."

• (Tim McGraw) "How do they look?"
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Well -- pretty much the same as yesterday."
• (Tim McGraw) "Well, that can change in a heartbeat."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Right."
• (Tim McGraw) "You know, animals are a lot like us, son. They'll always find a way to tell you exactly how they're feeling. You've just gotta learn to listen to 'em."

• (Tim McGraw) "There's no good reason why this animal should be alive."
• (Maria Bello) "There's a very good reason she's alive-she's got mustang blood in her. She's a fighter, just like our girl."

• (Tim McGraw) "Our daughter lives in a fantasy land."
• (Maria Bello) "So do you. Look at you, sitting on top of Cowboy Mountain looking down at the world passing by. When are you going to look at your daughter and realize that she's you?"

Ryan Kwanten as Howard McLaughlin

• (Ryan Kwanten) "You can have Chariot."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "It's not the same thing."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Well, four legs and a tail. Food goes in the front, out the back."

• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "And now you're going away."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Come on. I'm changing time zones, not solar systems."

• (Ryan Kwanten) "Dad."
• (Tim McGraw) "Don't."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "I'm sorry. I really screwed up."
• (Tim McGraw) "Look at me. You're a good man."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Yes sir."
• (Tim McGraw) "Now just stay with your mother."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Yes sir."

Dallas Roberts as Gus

• (Dallas Roberts) "Gus: Well, what'll it be tonight, boys? Crazy Eights or Canasta?"
• (Dallas Roberts) "Canasta it is."

Maria Bello as Nell McLaughlin

• (Maria Bello) "Unload Flicka before you look like a damn fool."
• (Tim McGraw) "What's wrong with you?"
• (Maria Bello) "You made this decision without me because you know it's wrong."
• (Tim McGraw) "I'm done discussing this."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Well, I'm not done. Katie found Flicka, she should decide."
• (Tim McGraw) "Until you're running this ranch, I'll make the decisions around here."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "I don't wanna run your ranch."
• (Maria Bello) "Howard."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "No. I'm sick of this place. You know what? I've given it a lot of thought and guess what? I'm never gonna be a rancher. Never. I wanna go to college."
• (Maria Bello) "Why didn't you say anything?"
• (Ryan Kwanten) "'Cause this is what you wanted me to do. Katie wants this ranch. I don't want any part of it."
• (Tim McGraw) "I'm sorry you feel that way."

• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "That's the wild horse. Isn't she beautiful?"
• (Maria Bello) "Well, she's something, that's for sure."
• (Tim McGraw) "That's a dangerous animal."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "She's just scared."
• (Maria Bello) "I'd say she's about two years-old."
• (Tim McGraw) "Yeah, two years wild."

• (Maria Bello) "Hey, Howard. Where's your dad at?"
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Don't ask."
• (Maria Bello) "Something Katie did?"
• (Ryan Kwanten) "You guessed it."
• (Maria Bello) "So? How bad? Give me a category."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Oh, I don't think he made a category for this one, yet."

• (Maria Bello) "Give her the horse."
• (Tim McGraw) "No."
• (Maria Bello) "C'mon honey, training her own horse will make her responsible for something and she'll feel proud of herself."
• (Tim McGraw) "Here it comes -- psycho babble. This isn't about psychology. Now, this is about discipline and I'm not gonna reward bad behavior."
• (Maria Bello) "That sure sounds like psychology to me."
• (Tim McGraw) "No. Horse."

• (Maria Bello) "And for your dining pleasure, gentlemen: Wild gooseberry pancakes with crème fraiche and rosemary chicken sausage."
• (Tim McGraw) "Well, who lives better than us?"
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Uh, let me think -- the Rockefellers?"

• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "A trim, split ends. That's it."
• (Maria Bello) "Sweetheart, just a few inches for the summer."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "No."
• (Maria Bello) "You stop it. I get better reasoned arguments from the hens."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Short hair makes me look like a boy."
• (Maria Bello) "No. That would be impossible, you're so beautiful. What was that thing that uh, Gus said? You're a -- a flicka."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "A flicka?"
• (Maria Bello) "Yeah. 'Pretty girl'."
• (Maria Bello) "So how's your friend Stephanie?"
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Shallow. Vain."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "The usual."
• (Maria Bello) "Since when?"
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Since Eric. Or was it Justin? I lost track."
• (Maria Bello) "Well, you never know what'll happen. People can surprise you."
• (Maria Bello) "Surprise."

• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "He doesn't listen when he's this mad."
• (Maria Bello) "You know what they say: "Anger is just fear on the way out.""
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Nice try. He's not afraid of anything."
• (Maria Bello) "I don't know, you could scare the heck out of anybody."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Yeah, right."
• (Maria Bello) "When you were three, you climbed out of bed, unlatched the kitchen door, and walked outside. He found you in Lightning's stall. That horse was crazy, he could've killed you and you were laughing."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "I don't remember that."
• (Maria Bello) "Yeah, well he does. Parents have this kind of -- selective memory. Sometimes I think I can't remember what I did yesterday and then I swear I can remember every injury, every close-call, every 'another inch and they could've been killed' that ever happened to my children. Try and understand what it feels like to be responsible for something you love so much."

• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Calm down, Flicka."
• (Maria Bello) "You named her?"
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Flicka. That is the word, isn't it?"
• (Dallas Roberts) "Oh, yeah. Beautiful um -- young girl."
• (Danny Pino) "Well, you got the girl part right."

Danny Pino as Jack

• (Danny Pino) "Maybe you should wash up, or someone might think you slept on the ground all night."

• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "I don't know where I saw it exactly, but it was there."
• (Danny Pino) "Did you see Sasquatch, too?"
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Did somebody ask for your opinion?"

• (Danny Pino) "You're not supposed to go in there."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "What's it to you?"
• (Danny Pino) "You could get hurt. Besides, it's what your father says."
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "How long are you gonna be afraid of my father?"
• (Danny Pino) "Um. Forever. And you? Why are you sneaking out here in the middle of the night if you're not scared?"
• (Katherine "Katie" McLoughlin) "Because I have to."
• (Danny Pino) "The, I'll let nobody stop you."

Jeffrey Nordling as Rick Koop

• (Jeffrey Nordling) "Esther went out shopping with our interior decorator. You know, at this point, it'd be cheaper just to adopt that lady."

Kaylee DeFer as Miranda Koop

• (Kaylee DeFer) "I think everyone writes a story in their head that eventually becomes their life and if you don't write it yourself then someone else is gonna write it for you."

• (Kaylee DeFer) "Hey, handsome."
• (Ryan Kwanten) "Oh, thanks. What do you think about the horse?"

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