Ned Pepper:
[laughs] They will do it. Most girls like little play pretties, but you like guns, don't you?
Mattie Ross: If I did I'd have one that worked.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross: If I did I'd have one that worked.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Ned Pepper:
Now, what are you doin' here?
Mattie Ross: Tom Chaney shot my father to death in Fort Smith. I was told that Rooster Cogburn has grit. I hired him to go after the murderer. I found him myself and I shot him. If I killed him I would not be in this fix. My revolver misfired.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross: Tom Chaney shot my father to death in Fort Smith. I was told that Rooster Cogburn has grit. I hired him to go after the murderer. I found him myself and I shot him. If I killed him I would not be in this fix. My revolver misfired.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
LaBoeuf:
A little earlier I gave some thought to stealin' a kiss from you, although you are very young... and you're unattractive to boot. But now I'm of a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt.
Mattie Ross: Well, one would be as unpleasant as the other.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross: Well, one would be as unpleasant as the other.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross:
[Rooster and LaBoeuf gallop away from the ferry, leaving Mattie behind] Those horses can't get away from Little Blackie - they're loaded down with fat men and iron.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross:
I have no regard for you, but I'm sure you have enough for yourself to go around.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross:
I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross:
Now I know you can drink whiskey and I saw you kill a rat, but all the rest has been talk. I'm not paying for talk. I can get all the talk I need at the Monarch Boarding House.
Rooster Cogburn: I ought to paddle your rump!
Mattie Ross: I don't know how you propose to do that from that hog wallow you're sunk into. If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Rooster Cogburn: I ought to paddle your rump!
Mattie Ross: I don't know how you propose to do that from that hog wallow you're sunk into. If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross:
There's an old song that says: One white foot buy 'em, two white feet try 'em, three white feet be on the sly, four white feet pass 'em by.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
[Mattie is arguing with Col. Stonehill]
Col. G. Stonehill: I'll take it up with my attorney.
Mattie Ross: And I will take it up with mine - Lawyer Daggett. And he will make money and I will make money and your lawyer will make money... and you, Mr. Licensed Auctioneer, you will foot the bill.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Col. G. Stonehill: I'll take it up with my attorney.
Mattie Ross: And I will take it up with mine - Lawyer Daggett. And he will make money and I will make money and your lawyer will make money... and you, Mr. Licensed Auctioneer, you will foot the bill.
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
[Mattie prepares to go back to the Monarch Boarding House; Rooster is too drunk to escort her]
Mattie Ross: I'll walk over there by myself.
Rooster Cogburn: You scared of the dark?
Mattie Ross: I've never been scared of the dark.
Rooster Cogburn: Well if I had a big horse pistol like that I wouldn't be scared of no "boogerman".
Mattie Ross: I'm not scared of no "boogerman".
[she leaves]
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
Mattie Ross: I'll walk over there by myself.
Rooster Cogburn: You scared of the dark?
Mattie Ross: I've never been scared of the dark.
Rooster Cogburn: Well if I had a big horse pistol like that I wouldn't be scared of no "boogerman".
Mattie Ross: I'm not scared of no "boogerman".
[she leaves]
--Kim Darby (as Mattie Ross) in True Grit
