Joseph Donnelly Quotes in Far and Away (1992)

Joseph Donnelly: I tried to prove myself to you, But I know nothing of Books, or Alphabets, or Sun, or Moon, or... All I know is Joseph Loves Shannon

[Joe Donnelly dies]

Danty Duff: God bless your soul... poor Joe Donnelly...

[everyone is quiet, they turn and Joe comes back to life]

Joseph Donnelly: All saints preserve us! We thought you died, Da!

Joe Donnelly: I did son, I passed away... I've come back to tell you something. You're an especially odd boy.

Joseph Donnelly: You came back from the dead to tell me that I'm odd?

[about Grace]

Shannon Christie: She's got an awfully large chest to be goin' to church.

Joseph Donnelly: Shannon, all chests are equal in the eyes of the Lord.

Shannon Christie: Pretend you love me.

Joseph Donnelly: I pretend I love you.

Shannon Christie: I pretend I love you, too.

Shannon Christie: Joseph?

Joseph Donnelly: What?

Shannon Christie: Am I beautiful at all?

Joseph Donnelly: [whispering] I've never seen anything like you in all of my livin' life.

Shannon Christie: Good!

Shannon Christie: May I ask, what are you doing, sitting at my table?

Joseph Donnelly: I'm eating your chocolate cake.

Joseph Donnelly: You're not in Ireland any more! You arrogant bastard!

Shannon Christie: No! Joseph, please come back. Joseph, no! Don't leave me alone. Please. I loved you. I loved you from the first time I saw you.

Joseph Donnelly: I've often wondered about that.

Joseph Donnelly: Tell me! Tell me ya like my hat!

Shannon Christie: You're not wearing a hat.

Joseph Donnelly: [yelling] Say it! Say you like my hat!

Shannon Christie: You're not wearing a hat!

Shannon Christie: You'll never win this duel with Steven. We've all seen you handle a gun. Boy, I am giving you your freedom!

Joseph Donnelly: I'm not going to a distant world. I'm of Ireland, and I'll stay in Ireland until I die!

Shannon Christie: That's in about five hours.

Joseph Donnelly: Maybe this is my destiny. On his death bed, my father told me he'd be watching me from up above. I wonder now if his spirit might be near, guiding me along.

Shannon Christie: If he bumps into Mr. McGuire up there, tell him I want my spoons back.

Shannon Christie: Look, you've got your land.

Joseph Donnelly: But all the land in the world means nothing to me without you.

Coniff: I think the prettiest girl in this factory, the one with the prettiest eyes, and the prettiest red hair, is Joseph's sister - if you don't mind me saying so Joseph.

Joseph Donnelly: Well, ya can say what you like lad. But I warn ya, that redhead has a bite that stings.

Flynn: [to Shannon] Get to work!

Shannon Christie: Get your filthy hands off me you ugly animal!

Flynn: That'll cost you a day's wage. Go ahead. Insult me again.

[spits]

Shannon Christie: [weakly] Pig.

[women laugh]

Flynn: There goes tomorrow. Done?

Shannon Christie: [looks over to Joseph, who jestures "No! Work!", returns to work, but spins around] Take Friday as well, you spineless little fraction of a man.

Joseph Donnelly: [laughs and smiles] Bite lads. Bite.

Joseph Donnelly: You're a corker, Shannon. What a corker you are.

Joseph Donnelly: I've no wish to fight ya.

[to his drunken brothers, Colin and Paddy, after they insulted him]

Joseph Donnelly: Shag off, the pair of you. There's a goat over there. Go improve your love life.

Joseph Donnelly: [about Grace] Grace isn't a tramp. She's a dancer in the Burley-cue.

Shannon Christie: That's not dancing. That's kicking her knickers up. I suspect if you asked her to, she'd kick her knickers off.

Joseph Donnelly: Oh, maybe she would.

Shannon Christie: Has she?

Joseph Donnelly: Let me see... I'm trying to remember.

Shannon Christie: Well, think hard! If there's any brains left in your head!

Joseph Donnelly: Captain Moonlight!

Joseph Donnelly: [after a bad argument with Shannon] Shannon! Shannon!

[yells]

Joseph Donnelly: Shannon!

Molly Kay: Oh, why don't you shag her and get it over with?

Joseph Donnelly: She's... my sister!

Molly Kay: And I'm your mother.

Joseph Donnelly: [upon seeing Shannon in the Oklahoma settlers camp] I'm cursed. Oh Lord, I'm cursed.