Bear Claw Chris Lapp Quotes in Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You've come far pilgrim.

Jeremiah Johnson: Feels like far.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Were it worth the trouble?

Jeremiah Johnson: [pause, then] Huh? What trouble?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Are you sure you can skin grizz?

Jeremiah Johnson: Just as fast as you can catch' em.

[Bear Claw runs into and through the cabin with a huge grizzly bear close behind and jumps out the back window]

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: [as the fight rages inside the cabin] Skin that one, pilgrim, and I'll get you another!

[Shot sounds from inside the cabin]

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You have done well to keep so much hair, when so many's after it. I hope... you will fare well.

[rides off]

Jeremiah Johnson: [Jeremiah and Bear Claw hunt elk] Wind's right, but he'll just run soon as we step out of these trees.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Trick to it. Walk out on this side of your horse.

Jeremiah Johnson: What if he sees our feet?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Elk don't know how many feet a horse has!

Jeremiah Johnson: Y'ever get lonesome?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Fer what?

Jeremiah Johnson: Woman?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don't get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You're the same dumb pilgrim that I been hearin' for twenty days, and smellin' for three!

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp; bloodkin to the grizzer that bit Jim Bridger's ass! YOU are molesting my hunt!

Jeremiah Johnson: Who are they?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Crow, most likely. This is their hunting ground, if they catch us, they'll steal our horses

[an arrow flies by Bear Claw's head and sticks in a tree]

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Yep, Crow. Fella by the name of Paints-his-Shirt-Red. That's his sign.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Watch your top knot.

Jeremiah Johnson: Yep, watch your'n.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: [Bear Claw is speaking to Paints His Shirt Red in Crow] You two know each other?

Jeremiah Johnson: I seen him once.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: [Paints His Shirt Red continues in Crow, nodding toward Jeremiah] He says you fish poorly.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Bear Claw is building a hot coal bed putting and covering them to sleep on, tells Jeremiah to do like wise. Middle of the night Jeremiahs blankets start smoking and jumps out of bed!

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Bear Claw looks up from his bed and says" Didn't put enough dirt down,, Saw it right off"

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: [Seeing the striped military trousers Jeremiah's wearing] Missed another war down there, hmm?

[Bear Claw is talking to Paints-his-Shirt in Crow]

Jeremiah Johnson: You understand what he's sayin'?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Paints-His-Shirt speaks English, he just does this to aggravate me.

[Bear Claw has found Jeremiah half starved and freezing]

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Heh, heh, heh. How come you ain't been scalped?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You've learned well, pilgrim. You'll go far - provided you ain't burnt alive, or scalped.

Jeremiah Johnson: I will do my best.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You can cut wood and leave it up on the "Judith." The riverboat captains will leave you gold, if you put out a pouch. Good thing to know, when times gits hard.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Watch your topknot.

Jeremiah Johnson: Yep. Watch your'n.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: [Jeremiah has a small game animal roasting over a fire] What's on the spit?

Jeremiah Johnson: Grown particular?

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: [laughs] Not the feedin'... just the company I keep.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You know how to skin griz?

Jeremiah Johnson: I can skin most anything.

Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You sure are cocky, for a starvin' pilgrim.