Rooster Cogburn:
Damn you, Bo. First time you ever give me reason to... cuss you.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
Give me your cup.
Mattie Ross: I don't drink coffee, thank you.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, now, what do you drink?
Mattie Ross: I'm partial to cold buttermilk.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, we ain't got none of that. We ain't got no lemonade neither!
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Mattie Ross: I don't drink coffee, thank you.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, now, what do you drink?
Mattie Ross: I'm partial to cold buttermilk.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, we ain't got none of that. We ain't got no lemonade neither!
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
Judge Parker. Old carpetbagger, *but he knows his rats*! We had a good court going on here 'til them pettifogging *lawyers* moved in!
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
LaBouef, you get cross ways of me and you'll think a thousand of BRICK have fell on you! You'll wish you was back at the Alamo with TRAVIS!
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
They don't call him "Lucky" Ned Pepper for nothing.
Mattie Ross: That man gave his life for him and he didn't even look back.
Rooster Cogburn: Looking back is a bad habit.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Mattie Ross: That man gave his life for him and he didn't even look back.
Rooster Cogburn: Looking back is a bad habit.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
Well, sister, the time has come for me to ride hard and fast.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
When's the last time you saw Ned Pepper?
Emmett Quincy: I don't remember any Ned Pepper.
Rooster Cogburn: Short feisty fella, nervous and quick, got a messed-up lower lip.
Emmett Quincy: That don't bring nobody to mind. A funny lip?
Rooster Cogburn: Wasn't always like that, I shot him in it.
Emmett Quincy: In the lower lip? What was you aiming at?
Rooster Cogburn: His upper lip.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Emmett Quincy: I don't remember any Ned Pepper.
Rooster Cogburn: Short feisty fella, nervous and quick, got a messed-up lower lip.
Emmett Quincy: That don't bring nobody to mind. A funny lip?
Rooster Cogburn: Wasn't always like that, I shot him in it.
Emmett Quincy: In the lower lip? What was you aiming at?
Rooster Cogburn: His upper lip.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
Why, by God, girl, that's a Colt's Dragoon! You're no bigger than a corn nubbin, what're you doing with all this pistol?
Mattie Ross: It belonged to my father, he carried it bravely in the war, and I intend to kill Tom Chaney with it if the law fails to do so.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, this'll sure get the job done if you can find a fence post to rest it on while you take aim.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Mattie Ross: It belonged to my father, he carried it bravely in the war, and I intend to kill Tom Chaney with it if the law fails to do so.
Rooster Cogburn: Well, this'll sure get the job done if you can find a fence post to rest it on while you take aim.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn:
You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You gotta kill him or let him be.
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
--John Wayne (as Rooster Cogburn) in True Grit
