Bill Doolin: I see you still have the habit of sleeping outside.
Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: Yeah, you live longer that way. See, when the shooting starts, I don't have to stop to open the door.


--Charles Kemper (as ) in The Doolins of Oklahoma

Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: Bill, that jail ain't big, but it looks harder to get into than most jails is to get out of.


--Charles Kemper (as ) in The Doolins of Oklahoma

Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: Come on, come on. Let's go!
Bill Doolin: What's the hurry? We're taking a rest, remember?
Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: I'm telling you we got to get out of here!
Bill Doolin: What's all the rush?
Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: I just robbed a bank!
Little Bill: Alone?
Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: Well, there was only one bank!


--Charles Kemper (as ) in The Doolins of Oklahoma

Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: Oh, come on, Melissa! Marry me, please?
Melissa Price: Ask me sometime when you're sober, Arkansas.
Thomas 'Arkansas' Jones: It's a funny thing. She won't marry me when I'm drunk and I won't marry her when I'm sober.


--Charles Kemper (as ) in The Doolins of Oklahoma

Jim Wilson: [yelling] So I get thrown off the force! What kind of job is this, anyway? Garbage, that's all we handle: garbage!
Pop Daly: Don't you know? That's the kind of job it is.
Jim Wilson: You've been doing it for sixteen years; you ought to know. How do you do it? How do you live with yourself?
Pop Daly: I don't! I live with other people. When I go home I don't take this stuff with me, I leave it outside. But you! The way you carry it around with you, you must like it!


--Charles Kemper (as Pop Daly) in On Dangerous Ground

[the sheriff has just shot two gunfighters]
Sheriff Willy: See what I mean about civilization comin' to Coarse Gold by degrees?
Bess Martin: I'm sorry for my opinion about you, Sheriff. I thought you were incompetent.
Sheriff Willy: Oh, no. I'm irregular, even off maybe, but I'm not incompetent.


--Charles Kemper (as ) in California Passage