Nevada Smith Quotes

Nevada Smith is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Nevada Smith stopped airing in 1970.

It features Henry Hathaway as producer, Alfred Newman (composer) in charge of musical score, and Lucien Ballard as head of cinematography.

Nevada Smith is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Nevada Smith is 128 minutes long. Nevada Smith is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Steve McQueen as Nevada Smith, Brian Keith as Jonas Cord, Suzanne Pleshette as Pilar, Karl Malden as Tom Fitch, Raf Vallone as Father Zaccardi, and Martin Landau as Jesse Coe.

Nevada Smith Quotes

Steve McQueen as Nevada Smith

• (Steve McQueen) "You're just not worth killing."

• (Steve McQueen) "Jesse."
• (Martin Landau) "Any cards, boys?"
• (Steve McQueen) "You, dealing cards."
• (Martin Landau) "Jesse who?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Jesse Coward. Jesse Murderer. Woman-killer."
• (Martin Landau) "Now wait a minute, my name is Jack Langley."
• (Steve McQueen) "When you killed my mother and father, it was Jesse."

• (Unnamed) "Hell of a way to begin a day, ain't it?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Well, I ain't cryin' about it; why should you?"
• (Unnamed) "If ever you could, it'd add 20 years to your life. Yeah, maybe somebody else's."

• (Unnamed) "Yes, sir, can I help you today?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Can of peaches -- A big can please."
• (Unnamed) "Best Eastern peaches in the West."
• (Steve McQueen) "Would you open it for me?"
• (Unnamed) "No charge."

Brian Keith as Jonas Cord

• (Brian Keith) "Go on home, boy. Take the shortcut."
• (Steve McQueen) "The sun was in my eyes and I wasn't expecting it."
• (Brian Keith) "Do you expect a man's gonna hold still for you with the sun at your back, and give you warning so you can stand there and shoot at him?"
• (Steve McQueen) "I can hit a rabbit at 80 yards with a rifle."
• (Brian Keith) "A rabbit don't shoot back. And how you think you're gonna swing a rifle in a barroom."
• (Steve McQueen) "I never been in a barroom."
• (Brian Keith) "Look, just to find them, you're gonna have to comb out every saloon, gambling hall, hog farm, and whore house between here and Mexico. What do you think you're after, three preachers? You gonna gun 'em down at 80 yards when they're coming out of a church social? You're hunting three men who steal because they're too damn lazy to work, and they kill because they love to, and they hide out like rats in the garbage. So if you're gonna get 'em, you're gonna have to eat, drink, and wallow in that garbage right with 'em, 'til you get so you think like 'em and smell like 'em."
• (Steve McQueen) "I'll do what I have to do."

• (Brian Keith) "Now you get so you can do that with either hand, when you're half-drunk, or half-awake, or inside of a dark room, off the back of a running horse, you might stand a chance. A small chance."
• (Steve McQueen) "Would you teach me?"
• (Brian Keith) "I sell guns, I don't teach killing."
• (Steve McQueen) "Then I'll learn myself."
• (Brian Keith) "You won't live that long."
• (Steve McQueen) "Well thank you for the food and advice, Mr. Cord. I guess I'll be on my way."
• (Brian Keith) "Where to? How? What with? Even if I did teach you something, that's only half of it. When you're looking for them three men, you gotta live, don't you? You gotta eat. You need clothes, food, horses, saddles, guns, ammunition, money. How you gonna get that? Tracking beaver on Sundays? I'll tell you how you'll get it. You'll wind up stealing, and killing, and turn yourself into the same kind of animal you're trying to track down. Can't you see that?"
• (Steve McQueen) "I don't see nothing, except my father laying on a blood-covered floor, all burnt and cut, with the top of his head blown to pieces. And my mother, split up the middle, and every square inch of her skin ripped off."

• (Brian Keith) "Now the lowest hand you can get is a pair, that's two of a kind. Then two pair, then three of a kind, and then a straight."
• (Steve McQueen) "Three of what kind?"
• (Brian Keith) "Three of anything. Three nines, three tens, three jacks."
• (Steve McQueen) "Which ones are the tens?"
• (Brian Keith) "Don't you know how to read?"
• (Steve McQueen) "I never went to school."
• (Brian Keith) "Or write?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Well, if I knew how to write, I'd know how to read."

• (Brian Keith) "It ain't that easy, kid. Findin' em's one thing. Killin' em's another."
• (Steve McQueen) "I'll figure out ways."
• (Brian Keith) "Ah. Well, I've been sellin' guns and ammunition to men like that for 15 years, and they got more ways to cripple and kill a man than you ever dreamed about. They'll shoot you in the back. They'll ambush you. They'll cut your throat while you're layin' asleep. All you got on your side is some blind Indian revenge."
• (Steve McQueen) "I'm half-white."
• (Brian Keith) "And you're all-helpless."

• (Brian Keith) "A little poker suit you?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Well, not too much."
• (Brian Keith) "You know how to play cards, don't you?"
• (Steve McQueen) "No."
• (Brian Keith) "I guess I can teach you. Have a drink."
• (Steve McQueen) "Well, I --"
• (Brian Keith) "You don't drink either?"
• (Steve McQueen) "No."
• (Brian Keith) "Where you're going, you best study up on it."

Raf Vallone as Father Zaccardi

• (Raf Vallone) "Don't, don't say what you will or won't do. Just remember when you ride out of here, God goes with you."
• (Steve McQueen) "-- I'll keep that in mind."

• (Raf Vallone) "Did you ever see Him before?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Yeah, once. He was on the end of a little silver chain."
• (Raf Vallone) "He;s the son of God. He came to Earth to teach men love by example."
• (Steve McQueen) "Well, he must have missed somebody. That looks worse than hangin'."

Suzanne Pleshette as Pilar

• (Suzanne Pleshette) "Just treat me nice, Max. That's all I want."

Karl Malden as Tom Fitch

• (Outlaw) "We shoot to kill?"
• (Karl Malden) "Is there any other way?"

• (Karl Malden) "The kid's creepy. He ain't human. He doesn't kill people; he executes them. Yeah, he executes them."

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