Jed: Hold on. ma'am.
Clay Boone: Listen, Miss Ballou.


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

Cat: I thought you were lying.
Clay Boone: You mean I wasn't?


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

Cat: Stay here with us. There's somebody trying to kill my father.
Jed: No.
Clay Boone: Jed...
Cat: Jed.
Jed: We'll stay, ma'am, it'll be our pleasure to do what we can.
Cat: We don't need him them.
Clay Boone: I think you do. My Uncle here ain't never shot at a man. It's against his principles.
Cat: Is that true?
Jed: Oh yes, ma'am, that's true. Neither has he.
Clay Boone: But we'll stay and do what we can. As long as there ain't no trouble.


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

Clay Boone: Come on, jump.
Jed: Jump?
Clay Boone: Jump!


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

Clay Boone: Hit him! Hit him! Hit him!


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

Clay Boone: I think we'll go to St. Louis.
Cat: St. Louis?
Clay Boone: Yeah, St. Louis! City on the Missouri, railhead of the Santa Fe, jump off for the Oregon Trail - producers of beef, beer, shoes and, ah, good times.


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

Clay Boone: I've never seen a man get through a day so fast.


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

Clay Boone: What's your name, so I can vote for you in the next election?


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou

[after a drunken Kid Sheleen shoots at a target on the barn]
Clay Boone: He did it! He missed the barn!


--Michael Callan (as Clay Boone) in Cat Ballou