Goin' South (1978)

Mary Steenburgen: Julia Tate

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• Sheriff Andrew Kyle : Julia, are you drunk?

  Julia Tate : Sheriff Kyle, you know I don't drink.

  Henry Moon : 'Course she don't drink!

• Julia Tate : I'll take him.

  Sheriff Andrew Kyle : Julia, what are you sayin'? He's an outlaw.

  Julia Tate : I assumed that's why you're hanging him.

• Henry Moon : You always this quiet?

  Julia Tate : When I have something to say, you'll hear it.

• Henry Moon : Well, look, I can get off right here as far as I'm concerned. Of course, a good husband's hard to find.

  Julia Tate : You weren't hard to find. You were standing in front of the whole town with a rope around your neck.

  Henry Moon : Yeah. You sure are a smart woman. I like smart women.

  Julia Tate : Sure you do.

• Henry Moon : [entering Julia's house]  Well, it looks like the Opera House.

  Julia Tate : Please take your clothes off, Mr Moon.

• Henry Moon : God damn, I should've known. You can always tell a virgin on account of the whites of the eyes ain't clear. You see, I got this theory on virgins, that they always look peaked and grouchy on account of they're going against nature. I don't want to get calluses pattin' myself on the back, but, in my time I have put a gal or two in tune with nature.

  Julia Tate : I'm sure nature is *very* grateful.

• Henry Moon : How's about a little dessert? I said, how's about a little dessert?

  Julia Tate : I heard you the first time.

  Henry Moon : You didn't answer me the first time. Can I ask you a personal question? When was the last time you had a man?

  Julia Tate : I hope you don't mind confined spaces; because, tomorrow we start tunneling.

• Julia Tate : First, you'll begin crevassing, then cross-cut using the singular jacking method.

  Henry Moon : I ain't familiar with that particular method.

  Julia Tate : You pry away any loose rocks. Are you watching? Then you insert the drill. Like this. Then you use the sledgehammer. Simple.

  Henry Moon : Where's the gloves? My hands blister easy.

  Julia Tate : Better blisters than neck burns.

• Henry Moon : I just got married.

  Julia Tate : Don't count on that too much.

• Diane Haber : Since you've never been married before, we all thought we should have a little chat.

  Julia Tate : Do you prefer Orange Pekoe or Lapsang Oolong?

  Diane Haber : You see, a husband has certain rights.

  Mrs. Warren : And a wife has certain - duties.

  Lorette Anderson : And that's where the trouble starts.

  Mrs. Warren : Speak for yourself, Laurette.

• Lorette Anderson : I suppose what we're trying to say, Julia, is it's not as much of a chore as you may have heard. But, if it should become one, I have found that the best thing to do is just think about cannin' apricots.

  Julia Tate : Apricots?

  Lorette Anderson : Well, for some reason, apricots just seem to work best.

• Julia Tate : [singing while taking a bath]  They may be bold maids till they die, And never feel their loss, My mother, mother says I mustn't, Oh, George, please George, not just yet, Mother says I mustn't, Mother says I mustn't, Oh George, please George, not just yet...

• Polty, Rail Road Manager : This is as difficult for me as it is for you, Julia. Do you know, a year ago last Christmas Eve, I had to move 150 Comanche souls off their sacred burial ground.

  Julia Tate : I know exactly how they felt.

• Julia Tate : The railroad's taking over my land under eminent domain.

  Henry Moon : Eminent domain. Ain't that where somebody bribes a state legislature to take away some poor folks' land?

  Polty, Rail Road Manager : I won't dignify that with an answer.

  Henry Moon : I ain't askin' for no dignification.

• Henry Moon : Why'd you stop laughin'?

  Julia Tate : Oh, I don't know. Get to work.

  Henry Moon : I'd rather laugh.

  Julia Tate : That's all you like to do.

  Henry Moon : No. That ain't all I like to do.

  Julia Tate : I'm not in the mood. Huh-eh.

  Henry Moon : Uh-huh. Ooh-oh, nasty!

• Henry Moon : I'd better put you to bed, darlin'.

  Julia Tate : I just got *out* of bed, darling.

• Julia Tate : [tied to the bed]  You wouldn't dare!

  Henry Moon : Well, I hadn't thought of it, but now you mention it, up in San Francisco, I seen some Chinese that done it this way. The Chinese is an old civilization. They understand things about pleasure that I've never even thought of. One thing for sure: we ain't had a borin' marriage.

• Henry Moon : God damn! Oh, goddamn! Look at that, gold. Gold. It's all over everything.

  Julia Tate : Moon, I told you! Didn't I tell you?

  Henry Moon : Oh, honey, kiss me. I'm rich. God damn, I am rich! You wait long enough, and pretty soon down it's gonna come right on you. Like a wall full of Mexican teeth.

• Henry Moon : It's been quite a day. I'm a bit tuckered out. I think I'll take a poco siesta.

  Julia Tate : Oh, you don't have to sleep in the barn.

• Henry Moon : That's it - for me. I'm too young to die.

  Julia Tate : You don't understand.

  Henry Moon : I understand about dreams. I understand about wakin' up, too. Didn't I want to ride with the Younger Gang and they wouldn't have me? Claimed I wasn't cut out to be a Younger. My feelin's was hurt, but I accepted it.

  Julia Tate : You know, for an outlaw, you've been a pretty good friend.

• Big Abe : I don't give a goddamn what anybody says, I'm a gentleman! And I'm not gonna throw up in this here house, I'm going outside to throw up, 'cause I respect ye house, ma'am.

  Julia Tate : Oh, Big Abe, you can throw up in this house any old time.

• Hermine, Moon's Old Gang : Did you know that ol' Henry used to cook for the Raiders?

  Julia Tate : He cooked for Quantrill's Raiders? No, he never told me that.

  Hermine, Moon's Old Gang : I bet there's a lot of things he never told you.

• Julia Tate , Hog, Moon's Old Gang : [singing]  Beautiful Dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee...

• Henry Moon : Well, I was just tryin' to get information off of Hermine.

  Julia Tate : That wasn't all you were trying to get off of her.

• Henry Moon : Didn't I tell you to watch what you was doin'? You don't understand outlaws!

  Julia Tate : I understood you when you told me to act foolish.

  Henry Moon : I didn't tell you to get drunk and singin' your damn fool head off!

  Julia Tate : Hog liked my singing.

  Henry Moon : That's why they call him Hog!

• Julia Tate : Moon, I been thinking, since we're gonna go anyway, why don't we go out in a blaze of glory? Tie me up.

• Julia Tate : Are you always this quiet?

  Henry Moon : I got nothin' to say.

• Julia Tate : You care more about that damn gold than you do about me.

  Henry Moon : That ain't true. I could've done what you think I done, but I didn't.

• Julia Tate : I'm not sure I'll ever get used to Mexico.

  Henry Moon : Why, sure you will, honey pie. You got used to me, didn't you?

• Henry Moon : Burn the breeze, Kyle, or I'm gonna blow everybody in sight into feathers.

  Sheriff Andrew Kyle : We don't desert our women out here, Mr Moon.

  Julia Tate : It's all right, Sheriff. You go on ahead. He's just trying to impress me.