Clay Boone Quotes in Cat Ballou (1965)

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Clay Boone Quotes:

  • [after a drunken Kid Sheleen shoots at a target on the barn]

    Clay Boone: He did it! He missed the barn!

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

  • Clay Boone: We can't hold up the train.

    Cat: Why not?

    Clay Boone: Lots of reasons.

    Cat: Name 'em.

    Clay Boone: We're rustlers, not train robbers.

    Cat: Well, if people didn't try something new, there wouldn't be hardly any progress at all.

  • [Jackson slugs Clay]

    Clay Boone: Well, what was that for?

    Jackson Two-Bears: Well, everyone else was doin' it. I got the right to share in the fun without regard to race, creed or color according to the Fourteenth Amendment.

  • Cat: I thought you were lying.

    Clay Boone: You mean I wasn't?

  • Jed: Ma'am, I can understand your objection to rustlin' - a girl with your background and gentle upbringing - but it's the only way we can raise money.

    Cat: No it's not.

    Clay Boone: Well, what do you think we ought to do that's fittin' and proper?

    Cat: Rob a train.

  • 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.

  • Cat: What are you doing here?

    Clay Boone: Looking for you.

    Cat: But you're an outlaw.

    Clay Boone: Sure am! Got a price on my head!

    Cat: Shh...

    Clay Boone: Twenty five dollars for Jed, thirty five dollars for me. Ha ha!

    Jed: I want to thank you ma'am for all your help with my nephew and I.

  • Clay Boone: Come on, jump.

    Jed: Jump?

    Clay Boone: Jump!

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

  • 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.

  • Jed: Hold on. ma'am.

    Clay Boone: Listen, Miss Ballou.

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

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