Ossie Quotes in Into the West (1992)

Tito: We can't go to jail.

Ossie: Why not?

Tito: We're much too young. We can go to a home, though.

Ossie: We have a home, Tito.

Tito: I know, but this is a home where they don't letcha out.

Ossie: That's a jail.

Ossie: I don't want to grow up?

Tito: Why?

Ossie: I don't want to get old like O'Sheen.

Tito: What?

Ossie: I don't want to turn into dust.

Ossie: What's his name?

Grandfather: Um, he's called Tír na nÓg.

Ossie: What does it mean?

Grandfather: It's the land of eternal youth.

Ossie: But why's he called that?

Grandfather: He's from Tir na nÓg, the land under the sea.

Tito: Why are you talkin' to the horse?

Ossie: Why not?

Ossie: Are we on the news?

Ossie: [seeing mother's gravestone] Why did she die on my birthday?

Ossie: What did the princess look like?

Grandfather: Close your eyes. Now do you see a beautiful woman?

Ossie: Yea.

Grandfather: Well, that's her. That's the beautiful princess.

Grandfather: [lifting Ossie down from the horse's back] Come on. Time for bed.

Ossie: I don't want to get old.

Grandfather: Ah, you won't get old Ossie. Not yet.

Ossie: [Ossie and Tito in their flat, sitting on the back of the horse and watching a Western on tv] Was the old Wild West in Ireland?

Papa Reilly: There still is. On the other side of the mountains.

Ossie: Were the travellers the Indians?

Papa Reilly: No. We're the cowboys.