Quotes

Billy Two Hats

Esther Spencer: Billy Two Hats? How did you get a name like that?
Billy Two Hats: Well, my mother was a Kiowa and I don't know who my father was except he was white. My mother didn't know too much about him neither, except she told me he was kind of important. She said that in his room he had two hats - one for special and one for ordinary. That impressed my mother a whole lot. And when I was a kid it impressed me.

Arch Deans: You remember, Billy... he asked me why I came back for you. Well, I don't know for sure. Except I been on my own for too long...
Arch Deans: [pauses to reflect] You know the Bible, Billy?
Billy Two Hats: [Silently shakes his head]
Arch Deans: Well, there's a bit in it, from the Book of Ecclesiastes, that says 'Two are better than one because they have good reward for their labor. And if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up. And if one shall prevail against him, two shall withstand him.'
Billy Two Hats: [Obviously impressed] That's in a book?
Arch Deans: Aye! That, and a LOT more, Billy.

Sheriff Henry Gifford: Watching out for the old man, huh, breed? Well, he's not out there. He's down in Mexico leaning up against some cantina bar, puking up all that money you and him and your dead partner stole. Yeah, all that money. Four hundred twenty dollars. You had to kill somebody at that. I don't like no kind of law breaker, breed. But the kind I hate worse is a cheap one. And cheaper than you and your friend, they just don't come!

Copeland, Saloon Owner: You know, when I first came out here, the Indians was in the thousands. And the buffalo? They were in the millions. Not no more. In the beginning it was a good life. You could stand in one spot and see the same herd of buffalo go by all day long. I never saw nothing like it. It was just like the whole prairie was moving.

Spencer: Once she gets excited she can hardly speak, so I give her a whack. It shakes her brain box up a bit.

Sheriff Henry Gifford: [Henry, with his prisoner Billy in tow, has arrived at Cope's general store] Can he wash?
Copeland, Saloon Owner: [Reluctantly] Ah... it's a mighty fancy 'breed, washing and all that.
Copeland, Saloon Owner: [after a long pause] Well, go on, but don't let him use a whole lot of water.
Sheriff Henry Gifford: [to Billy, gruffly] Wash up. But don't waste any water.
Copeland, Saloon Owner: [Watching, as Billy meticulously washes up] Mighty fancy 'breed ya' got there, sure enough, Henry.
Sheriff Henry Gifford: [Contemptuously] Yeah, he's fancy all right. Thinks this old man of his is comin' to cut him loose.

Copeland, Saloon Owner: Well, Henry, they long gone now. I don't see us catchin' 'em. Thing is, we'd be out a long time anyway. I got the store to run, and then there's the squaw to think about. You never can tell when she might take it in her head to take off.
Sheriff Henry Gifford: [Coldly and a bit sarcastic] You figure out what's owed to you, Cope, send it to me, eh? I mean if the Scotsman can pay, I guess the law can too.
Copeland, Saloon Owner: [Offended] You got no right to say that to me, Henry.
Sheriff Henry Gifford: You go back and wait for the railroad, Cope. I wouldn't want you not to be there when it comes through.
Copeland, Saloon Owner: [Henry rides off; Cope watches him, fuming and muttering] Bastard!

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