True Grit (2010 film) Quotes

True Grit (2010 film) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . True Grit stopped airing in 1970.

It features Joel Coen as producer, Carter Burwell in charge of musical score, and Roger Deakins as head of cinematography.

True Grit (2010 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of True Grit (2010 film) is 110 minutes long. True Grit (2010 film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Matt Damon as LaBoeuf, Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross, Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned Pepper, Dakin Matthews as Col. Stonehill, Paul Rae as Emmett Quincy, Domhnall Gleeson as Moon, Jake Walker as Judge Parker, Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney, Leon Russom as Sheriff, and Ed Corbin as Bear Man.

True Grit (2010 film) Quotes

Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God."

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Shoot them, Mr. Laboeuf."
• (Matt Damon) "Too far. Movin' too fast."

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Do you need a good lawyer?"
• (Barry Pepper) "I need a good judge --"

• (Rooster Cogburn) "Is that him?"
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "I believe not."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "Oh, cut him down."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Why?"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I might know him."

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Well I need a pony, and I'll pay you ten dollars for one of them."
• (Dakin Matthews) "No, that's a lot price, no no -- wait a minute -- are we trading again?"

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "If I had killed Chaney, I would not be in this fix; but my gun misfired."
• (Barry Pepper) "They will do it. It will embarrass you every time. Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns do you?"
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "I do not care a thing about guns, if I did, I would have one that worked."

• (Rooster Cogburn) "We'll sleep here and follow in the morning."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "But we promised to bury the poor soul inside."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "Ground's too hard. If them men wanted a decent burial, they should have gotten themselves kilt in summer."

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Are you going to let him do this, Marshal?"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "No, I don't believe I will. Put your switch away, LaBoeuf."
• (Matt Damon) "I aim to finish what I started."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "It'll be the biggest mistake you ever made, you Texas brush-popper."

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Who's the best marshal?"
• (Leon Russom) "Hmm, I'd have to think on that. Bill Waters is the best tracker. He's part Comanche; it is a pure joy to watch him cut for sign. The meanest is Rooster Cogburn; a pitiless man, double tough.Fear don't enter into his thinking. I'd have to say the fairest is L.T. Quinn; he always brings in his prisoners alive. Now, he might let one slip by evry now and then, but --"
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Where would I find this Rooster?"

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

• (Hailee Steinfeld) "I guess I have a $10 horse. Tell Col. Stonehill I said 'Thank you'."
• (Stableboy) "No ma'am. He said he don't never want to hear your name again."

• (Rooster Cogburn) "At The Green Frog, had a billiard table. Served ladies and men both, mostly men. Tried running it myself for a while, but couldn't keep good help. And I never did learn how to buy meat. Is it him?"
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "I believe not."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "Well, cut him down."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Why?"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I might know him."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "That's when I went out to the staked plains of Texas. Shoot buffalo with Vernon Shaftoe and a Flathead Indian named Olly. Well, the Mormons, well they run Shaftoe out of Great Salt Lake City, don't ask me what for. Call it a misunderstanding and leave it go at that. Well, big shaggies, about all gone now. Damned shame. Give three dollars right now for a pickled buffalo tongue."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Why did they hang him so high?"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I do not know. Possibly in the belief it'd make him more dead."

• (Rooster Cogburn) "The jakes is occupied."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "I know it is occupied Mr. Cogburn. As I said, I have business with you."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I have prior business."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "You have been at it for quite some time, Mr. Cogburn."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "There is no clock on my business. To hell with you. To hell with you. How did you stalk me here?"
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "The sheriff told me to look in the saloon. In the saloon they referred me here. We must talk."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "Women ain't allowed in the saloon."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "I was not there as a customer. I am fourteen years old."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "The jakes is occupied. And will be for some time."

Matt Damon as LaBoeuf

• (Rooster Cogburn) "That was "Johnny in the Low Ground." There are very few fiddle tunes I have not heard. Once heard they are locked in my mind forever. It is a sadness to me that I have sausage fingers that cannot crowd onto a fretboard -- Little fat girls at a cotillion. "Soldier's Joy"."
• (Matt Damon) "I don't believe he slept."

• (Rooster Cogburn) "The chinaman is running them cheap shells on me again."
• (Matt Damon) "I thought you were going to say the sun was in your eyes. That is to say, your EYE."

• (Matt Damon) "As I understand it, Chaney -- or Chelmsford, as he called himshelf in Texas -- shot the senator's dog. When the senator remonstrated, Chelmsford shot him as well. You could argue that the shooting of the dog was merely an instance of malum prohibitum, but the shooting of a senator is indubitably an instance of malum in se."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "Malla-men what?"
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "Malum in se. The distinction is between an act that is wrong in itself, and an act that is wrong only according to our laws and mores. It is Latin."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I am struck that LaBoeuf is shot, trampled, and nearly severs his tongue, and not only does not cease to talk, but spills the banks of English."

• (Matt Damon) "You give out very little sugar with your pronouncements. While I sat there watchin' I gave some thought to stealin' a kiss -- though you are very young, and sick -- and unattractive to boot. But now I have a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "One would be just as unpleasant as the other"

• (Matt Damon) "I've just come from Yell County."
• (Hailee Steinfeld) "We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County."
• (Matt Damon) "A saucy line will not get you far with me."

• (Matt Damon) "You are getting ready to show your ignorance now, Cogburn. I don't mind a little personal chaffing but I won't hear anything against the Ranger troop from a man like you.L"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "How long have you boys been mounted on sheep down there?"
• (Matt Damon) "My Appaloosa will be galloping when that big American stud of yours is winded and collapsed. Now make another joke about it. You are only trying to put on a show for this girl Mattie with what you must think is a keen tongue."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "This is like women talking."
• (Matt Damon) "Yes, that is the way. Make me out foolish in this girl's eyes."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I think she has got you pretty well figured."

• (Rooster Cogburn) "That Chinamen is running them cheap shells on me again."
• (Matt Damon) "I thought you gonna say the sun was in your eyes. That is to say, your Eye."

• (Matt Damon) "I am not accustomed to so large a fire. In Texas, we'll make do with a fire of little more than twigs -- buffalo chips. Heat the night's ration of beans. And it is Ranger policy never to make your camp in the same place as your cook fire. Very imprudent to make your presence known in unsettled country."

Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney

• (Josh Brolin) "I didn't think you'd do it. One of my short ribs is broke."

Ed Corbin as Bear Man

• (Ed Corbin) "You might want to head over to the Original Greaser Bob's. He notched a dugout into a hollow along the Coralon River. If you ride the river you won't fail to see it. Greaser Bob, the Original Greaser Bob, is hunting north of the picket wire and would not begrudge its use."

Barry Pepper as Lucky Ned Pepper

• (Barry Pepper) "I will kill this girl."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "Biggest mistake you ever made."

• (Barry Pepper) "What is your intention Rooster? You think one on four is a dogfall?"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which will you have?"
• (Barry Pepper) "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."
• (Rooster Cogburn) "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch."

Jake Walker as Judge Parker

• (First Lawyer) "Mr. Cogburn, did you find a bottle with a hundred and twenty-five dollars in it?"
• (Cross-examining Lawyer) "Objection your Honor, Leading"
• (Jake Walker) "Sustained. Rephrase the question."
• (First Lawyer) "What happened then?"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "I found a bottle with a hundred and twenty-five dollars in it."

Dakin Matthews as Col. Stonehill

• (Dakin Matthews) "I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough."

Paul Rae as Emmett Quincy

• (Paul Rae) "Who worked you over with the ugly stick?"

• (Rooster Cogburn) "Who is in there?"
• (Paul Rae) "A Methodist and a son of a bitch."

• (Paul Rae) "Don't you go flappin' your gums, Moon. If you blow, I will kill you."
• (Domhnall Gleeson) "I'm played out, Quincy. We seen Ned and Hayes two days ago --"
• (Rooster Cogburn) "god**** it."

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