Cowboy Quotes in The Warriors (1979)

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  • Cowboy: [winded, running from the Baseball Furies] I can't make it.

    Ajax: Are you sure?

    Cowboy: Yes, I'm sure...

    Ajax: Well, good! I'm sick of runnin' from these wimps!

  • Snow: It's the Turnbull A.C.'s.

    Cowboy: Think they forgot about the truce?

    Vermin: No shit!

    Ajax: Those lousy skinhead fucks!

  • Cowboy: You never know what you're gonna run into out there. If we're wearing our colors, we can't hide.

    Vermin: Who wants to hide?

  • Cowboy: What do you know about Cyrus?

    Cochese: Magic... whole lotta magic.

  • Cowboy: What do you know about Cyrus?

    Rembrandt: He's the one and only.

  • Cowboy: Okay, what are we gonna do now?

    Swan: We're going back.

    Vermin: You mind tellin' me how? Fuckin' Coney Island must be 50 to 100 miles from here!

    Swan: It's the only choice we got.

    Cochise: Yeah, real simple. Except that every cop in this city is lookin' to bust our heads.

    Swan: We got somethin' else to think about then the cops.

    Vermin: Yeah, what?

    Snow: The truce. Is it still on?

    Vermin: If it ain't, we're gonna have to bop our way back!

    Cowboy: Shit, I wish we was packed.

  • [the Warriors successfully made it on the train at the Gun Hill Road subway stop just seconds before the Turnbull A.C.'s storm an attack on the gang]

    Cowboy: [cheering] Whoo! All right, Warriors!

    [cheering continues]

    Vermin: Them cats were some desperate dudes.

    Cowboy: [laughs] Hey, so was we!

    Ajax: But even fight, we can take 'um!

    [cheers continue as Snow smiles]

    Ajax: Bunch of chicken-shits!

    Cowboy: Those cats didn't look too chicken-shit to me.

    Vermin: Me either.

  • Cowboy: He's lucky Texas Jack ain't around... he'd gun that dude for sure!

    Professor Fate: Pardon me, Mr. Pahd-nuh, who is this Texas Jack?

    Cowboy: WHO'S TEXAS JACK?

    Professor Fate: Who?

    Cowboy: The roughest, toughest gunslinger in these parts... Lilly's his girl!

    Professor Fate: Whoo, hoo, hoo... Lilly's his girl.

    Max: Terrific...

  • [Doc has killed five men at a hotel near the Mexican border and carjacked a cowboy in his pickup]

    Cowboy: Ya know, if I's you kids what I'd do? I'd quit this runnin' around the country. Ya know, git a little bit a money together 'n, hell, buy a place 'n settle down 'n raise a family. I've been married for 35 years, same old gal; man she's a tough ol' hide. God dang, everything I am, I owe ta her.

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: Say a, pull over over here would ya.

    Cowboy: Okay, what ever you say.

    [Pulls over]

    Cowboy: Now what?

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: Let's get out a spell.

    [Cowboy and Doc get out of the truck. Doc and Carol exchange glances and smile at each other]

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: How much money did you make last year?

    Cowboy: Aw, reckon about five thousand.

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: Suppose I give you ten thousand for that truck of yours.

    Cowboy: You're serious?

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: I am.

    Cowboy: An'a I keep ma' mouth shut, an' I don't say nothin' 'bout the truck, 'n I never seen either one a the two of ya.

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: That's what I want.

    [Carol counts out some hundreds]

    Cowboy: How 'bout twenty?

    [Doc smiles and laughs]

    Carol Ainsley McCoy: How 'bout thirty?

    Cowboy: God damn, ma'am, you got a deal!

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: Pay the man, honey.

    [Carol pays the cowboy]

    Cowboy: Thank ya, ma'am.

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: Now you're gonna have to walk on back to the border.

    Cowboy: Oh that's alright. Don't worry 'bout me.

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: Hope you find what you're lookin' for.

    [Shakes hands with the Cowboy]

    Cowboy: Vaya con Dios. You too, maam.

    [Walks away]

    Cowboy: Take care, ya hear? God damn!

    [laughing and walking]

    Carter 'Doc' McCoy: [to Carol] Come on.

    [Drives away in the most beat up truck I've ever seen]

  • Cowboy: Welcome, Nestor. I'm from Earth. Ever hear of it?

    Nestor 1: No, but we are pleased to meet you.

  • Cowboy: [after seeing Gelt blast a ship] Beautiful. I love to see a pro work!

    Shad: He's got a lot of practice. Nell, I think we may have bought ourselves a chance! Let's head to the surface!

  • Nanelia: The Sonar Tank. They're wearing sound baffles in case they get in front of it. Even if we plug our ears, we can't get any closer.

    Cowboy: [to the nearby Kelvin, who are trying to get his attention] Will you two radiators stand back? It's hard enough to think!

    Nestor 1: It seems they're volunteering.

    Cowboy: Yeah, what can THEY do?

    Nestor 1: Well, for one thing, the Kelvin have no ears.

  • Cowboy: [upon seeing Gelt's ship approach] Here comes somebody else. Who's that?

    Shad: [switching over to Gelt] Do you want your name used?

    Gelt: My name is Gelt.

    Cowboy: Where ya from, Gelt? I'm from Earth. Know where that is?

    Gelt: I was born in space.

    Cowboy: Oh, well, put in between us. I'll cover you.

    Gelt: I don't like anyone behind me.

    Cowboy: Okay, you keep a scanner on our tail.

    Gelt: I always do.

  • Nestor 1: [eating a hot dog for the first time] There's no dog in this.

    Cowboy: Uh-uh.

    Nestor 1: Hydrolyzed vegetable protein, soybean meal, niacin, dextrose, and sodium nitrate flavoring.

    Cowboy: Yup, that's what we call "meat" back home.

  • Shad: Is that real smoke you're putting into your lungs?

    Cowboy: Yup. And before ya ask, it is the worst thing in the world for me.

    Shad: Well, I don't think you should do it.

  • Cowboy: [to Lux, lovingly] You pretty thing.

  • Cowboy: Hey, pilgrim, you wanna ruin my career, I'LL show you *bad*.

    Michael: Sorry, I gotta go. Bye.

    Cowboy: Let's get the varmit.

  • [first lines]

    Ringo: [shoots a snake out of the claws of a flying hawk and cuts egg out of it]

    Cowboy: [draws his gun on Piringo and whistles appreciatively]

    Boss: Piringo. Been looking for you. It's the end of the road for you.

    Boss: [gong] What's that sound?

    Ringo: That's the sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells.

    Boss: What?

    Ringo: You know, those Heike and Genji boys. On a distant island, these to clans split into the Reds and the Whites. Waged a war. Sort of like that, uh, War of the Roses, ya know? In England?

    Boss: Who won? The Whites?

    Ringo: This high noon battle was waged in Dannoura. Hear the Heike clan in red got themselves hog-tied by the Genji clan in white. Their story goes a little something like this.

    Ringo: [switching into Chinese accent] The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things.

    Boss: What bells you say?

    Ringo: The color of the Sala flower reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall.

    [gong]

    Ringo: The proud do not endure, like a passing dream on a night in spring.

    [sudden shoot out]

    Ringo: The mighty fall at last.

    Boss: See you in hell!

    Ringo: [shoots him, then back into cowboy accent] To be no more than dust before the wind.

    [mixes his egg]

    Girl: Piringo! That's why I love you!

  • Bruce: Do you like sushi like I like sushi?

    Cowboy: I like Susie... Susie's my girl!

    Bruce: Oh, I had sushi last night!

  • [In the middle of a desert. Clark is going crazy as he trots through the hills. Two native Americans on horses watch him]

    Clark: We pass a damn gas station every hundred yards for a thousand miles, but when you really need one, you end up walking your ass off. This is no way to run a desert!

    [Coughs and continues to rant]

    Cowboy: What an asshole.

  • Cowboy: Whoo! That is one crazy get-up, mister... Are you in the show?

    Austin Powers: No, actually, I'm English.

    Cowboy: Oh... I'm sorry.

  • [Austin Powers is drowning a man in the toilet]

    Austin Powers: Who does Number Two work for? Who does Number Two work for?

    Cowboy: Yeah, that's it! You show that turd who's boss.

  • [Looking at the man that Austin Powers had drowned and left in the toilet]

    Cowboy: Jesus Christ, boy! What did you eat?

  • Cowboy: Kansas is all right for men and dogs, but it's pretty hard on women and horses.

  • Cowboy: Just think, within slingin' distance of a dead cat, there's millions o' unborn beer cans! Nature sure is wonderful.

  • Heather: [attempting to light a cigarette, turns and sees the cowboy offering her a light] Oh Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what do you want?

    Cowboy: You were right, I was a brain dead redneck asshole. Though I never screwed a sheep or my sister.

    Heather: Why not, couldn't catch 'em?

  • Heather: [after the Cowboy says he wants to talk to her] Okay. What the hell! What is your name?

    Cowboy: Clarence.

    Heather: I like your hat, Clarence. Pick up the pace!

  • Charlie 'Dirtwater Fox' Malloy: Hold it! Hold it! Hold it! Now let's not get carried away with blood lust. Where is our cup of human kindness? Where's it runneth to?

    Cowboy: It runneth right up your ass, that's where it's runneth to! Somebody get a rope!

  • Cowboy: Tell your kid to stay away from my fucking dog!

    Turner Lair: ...Stares at him in disbeleaf...

    Cowboy: What? What are you lookin' at?

    Turner Lair: How much is he?

    Cowboy: What?

    Turner Lair: Your dog?

    Cowboy: Fuck you! He ain't for sale

    Turner Lair: I'd like to buy him anyway!

    Cowboy: Mister! You ask me one more time, someone else will end up with your goddam social security!

  • John Person: Who are you?

    Cowboy: I'm just a cowboy, John. Pure and simple.

  • Cowboy: There's been a little hitch in the giddy-up.

  • John Person: Why me?

    Cowboy: I help people move on, John; help them to escape their mundane ordinary lives. If you want to keep living this life of quiet desperation, that's up to you.

  • Ace Rothstein: [voice over after having cowboy thrown out] Sure enough, an hour later, I get the call.

    Nicky Santoro: [on payphone] Ace, what happened over there? I mean, did you know that guy you threw out was with me?

    [in background the cowboy stands there with some other guys]

    Ace Rothstein: [on casino phone] No, I didn't know that. But you know what he did? He insulted Billy. And then I walked over to him politely and he tells me to go fuck myself. Then he called me a faggot.

    Nicky Santoro: [in a you don't say type of voice] What?

    Ace Rothstein: So what do you think I do? I threw that cocksucker out.

    Nicky Santoro: What? Hold on a second.

    [to cowboy]

    Nicky Santoro: Hey, come here.

    Cowboy: [does]

    Nicky Santoro: [losing it] You called my friend a faggot? You tell him to go fuck himself?

    Cowboy: Nicky, I didn't

    Nicky Santoro: Is that what you did?

    Cowboy: [stuttering] I did. I didn't

    Nicky Santoro: [angry] Tell him to go fuck himself? You fucking hick! Fucking.

    [Nicky hits cowboy with phone. He falls down]

    Nicky Santoro: you big fucking hick, you. Come here. Come here.

    [to guys]

    Nicky Santoro: Get him up. Come here.

    Cowboy: [does all banged up]

    Nicky Santoro: You go over there right now and you apologize. You better hope he lets you back in. If you ever get out of line over there again, I'll smash your fucking head so hard you won't be able to get that cowboy hat on. You hear me? Fucking hick.

    Nicky Santoro: [into phone] Ace, listen to me. this guy obviously doesn't know who he was talking to, you understand? He doesn't know that, uh, we're dear friends. I mean, he's already very sorry. But, uh, if you could do me a favor to let him back in, I swear to you he'll never get out of line again. I promise you that.

    Ace Rothstein: If he does it again, he's out for good. I don't care what it is, Nick, I'm gonna ha- I'll - I'll never let him in the place again.

    Nicky Santoro: I'm sorry about this. Really. All right, Ace?

    Ace Rothstein: Okay.

    Nicky Santoro: Thanks, pal.

    [hangs up and turns to cowboy for round two of his scolding]

    Nicky Santoro: [to cowboy] You took your boots off? You put your feet on the table... you shit-kicking, stinky, horse-manure-smelling motherfucker you! You fuck me up over there, I'll stick you in a hole in the fucking desert! You understand?

    [slaps cowboy]

    Nicky Santoro: Go over there and apologize.

    [kicks the cowboy]

    Nicky Santoro: Go! Get the fuck over there!

  • [close shot of socked feet up on casino table]

    Ace Rothstein: I don't give a shit who he's connected to. Tell him to take his fuckin' feet off the table. What's he think this is, a goddamn sawdust joint?

    Billy Sherbert: [goes up to Cowboy] Sir, would you mind taking your feet off the table and putting your shoes back on?

    Cowboy: Yeah, I would mind. I'm having a bad night.

    Billy Sherbert: [walks back over to Ace] Fuckin' asshole won't budge.

    Ace Rothstein: [smoking a cigarette] Call security.

    [advances towards cowboy and says firmly]

    Ace Rothstein: How are you?

    Cowboy: [trying to avoid eye contact and says sour] Good. How are you?

    Ace Rothstein: [getting right to the point] Fine. Good. You want to do me a favor? You want to take your feet off the table and put your shoes back on?

    Cowboy: [now making eye contact] Fuck you!

    Ace Rothstein: [looks in disbelief]

    Cowboy: [with serious look]

    Ace Rothstein: [goes back to Sherbert to see that security has arrived and says to them pointing at cowboy] I want you vacate this guy off the premises, and I want you to exit him off his feet and use his head to open the fucking door.

    Guards: [approach cowboy and one tries to say firmly but nice] Sir, you're gonna have to leave. You mind accompanying us outside?

    Cowboy: Bullshit, I ain't going anywhere.

    Guards: [one guard grabs the cowboy by the arms, the other by the legs and says] Bullshit, you're coming with us!

    Cowboy: [mainly at Ace who casually watches the scene unfold while smoking his cigarette] Fuck you! FUCK YOU! You know who you're fucking with? Huh? Do you? You fucking faggot! Do you know who you're fucking with?

    Guards: [now using Cowboy like a battering ram at the doors] Here we go!

    Cowboy: [shocked at this] I don't believe this!

    Guards: [smashes the cowboy against and through the doors head first]

  • Cowboy: When you see the girl in the picture that was shown to you earlier today, you will say, "this is the girl". The rest of the cast can stay, that's up to you. But the choice for that lead girl is NOT up to you. Now... you will see me one more time, if you do good. You will see me... two more times, if you do bad. Good night.

  • Cowboy: A man's attitude... a man's attitude goes some ways. The way his life will be. Is that somethin' you agree with?

    Adam Kesher: Sure.

    Cowboy: Now... did you answer cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear, or did you think about what I said and answer cause you truly believe that to be right?

    Adam Kesher: I agree with what you said, truthfully.

    Cowboy: What'd I say?

    Adam Kesher: Uh... that a man's attitude determines, to a large extent, how his life will be.

    Cowboy: So since you agree, you must be someone who does not care about the good life.

  • Cowboy: Well, just stop for a little second and think about it. Will ya do that for me?

    Adam Kesher: [sarcastic tone] Okay, I'm thinking.

    Cowboy: No, you're not thinkin'. You're too busy being a smart aleck to be thinkin'. Now I want ya to "think" and stop bein' a smart aleck. Can ya try that for me?

  • Cowboy: Hey, pretty girl, time to wake up.

  • Cowboy: There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy have?

    Adam Kesher: One.

    Cowboy: So, let's just say I'm driving this buggy. And, if you fix your attitude, you can ride along with me.

  • Cowboy: Howdy.

    Adam Kesher: Howdy to you.

    Cowboy: Beautiful evening.

    Adam Kesher: Yeah.

    Cowboy: Sure wanna thank you for coming all the way up here to see me from that nice little hotel downtown.

    Adam Kesher: No problem. What's on your mind?

    Cowboy: Well, now. Here's a man who wants to get right down to it. Kind of anxious to get to it, are you?

  • Cowboy: I lost my grip doing my chin ups and fell on my heels and twisted my back.

    Emory: You shouldn't wear heels when you do chin ups!

  • Cowboy: I'm not a steal. I cost twenty dollars.

  • Michael: [about the cowboy] How much was he Emory?

    Emory: A STEAL!

    Harold: A ham sandwich. Fifty cents, any time of the day or night.

    Harold: [about Michael] KING... of the pig people!

    Cowboy: I'm not a steal. I cost twenty dollars.

  • Cowboy: [about long distance calls] I'm glad I don't have to pay the bill!

    Michael: Quiet!

    Harold: Oh! Don't worry, Michael won't pay it either.

  • [repeated line]

    Cowboy: Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy hirthday Dear Harold, Happy birthday to you!

  • Cowboy: I am not going to talk to this ape with a painted face!

    Chief of Comanches: I forgive the pale face. He has not heard of Sir Charles Darwin and does not know that ape is our common ancestor.

  • Cowboy: Hey, Allie, we were just trying to help him out.

    Alex: Yeah, like a sharp stick in the eye.

  • Dinkey Hooley: Too bad to waste such good food on just ordinary cowboys. Why, this kind of food is fittin' for human beings.

    Cowboy: Well, I ain't human and that ain't fittin'!

    Dinkey Hooley: Sink your teeth into those biscuits.

    Cowboy: Last time I did, two of 'em stayed there!

  • Jed Cooper: They'll be no hanging here.

    Cowboy: These men killed my father and brother. They're gonna get what's coming to 'em.

    Jed Cooper: They're gonna get what the law says is coming to 'em.

  • Cowboy: Killing these italian gangsters was fun, still sad... they alway made a great spaghetti

  • Jefe: You've gone too far. You killed my politician uncle, my italian brother, and even a friend of my who was a jap

    Cowboy: But... you told me to...

    Jefe: Enough! I insist... this has gone too far...

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