American Outlaws (2001)

Scott Caan: Cole Younger

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Quotes 

• Captain Malcolm : Get me the James boy!

  Tom : What, Jesse?

  Captain Malcolm : No, not Jesse! I want the one that can shoot!

  Tom , Cole , Bob : FRANK!

• Cole : Why the hell aren't we the "Younger-James" gang? I mean we got three Younger brothers and two James brothers.

  Jim : Well, I kinda like the sound of the "James-Younger" gang.

  Cole : Hey Jim, I'll beat the piss out of you right now, now stay out of this.

  Bob : Oh, Jimmy's got a point, Cole. The "Younger-James" gang is confusing.

  Cole : How's that, Bob?

  Bob : Well, say we burst into a bank and we go, "We're the Younger-James gang!" Now people are gonna be thinkin', "The younger James gang? Is there an older James gang? How come we never heard of the older James gang?" So people are tryin' to figure that out instead of raisin' their arms.

• Jesse James : Let's go home, back to our farms.

  Cole : Platin' corn, harvesting corn... and eatin' corn.

  Bob : The corn gonna shoot at me?

  Cole : Nope.

  Bob : Then I love it.

• Frank : "From women's eyes this doctrine I derive, they sparkle still the right Promethean fire. They are the books, the arts, the acedemes that show, contain and nourish all the world."

  Cole : Well, I don't know what it is that you just said, but it sounded real nice.

  Frank : That's Shakespeare. Now *he's* European.

• Cole : You tell anyone I said this, I'll have to kill you, cause everyone knows I'm the toughest man in this town. But you are one terrifying son of a bitch with them guns.

• Cole : The one time that one of us comes up with an idea...

  Jesse James : A *bad* idea.

  Cole : Hey, I got us through the war all right.

  Jesse James : And nearly got hanged in peacetime.

• Cole : Sadie was a beautiful woman, Sadie was not a man!

  Jesse James : She had a mustache, a nice mustache.

  Frank : I think she had more than a mustache!

  Cole : Well, she was European.

• [first lines] 

  Cole : Gatling! They got a Gatling gun!

  Bob : Goddamn it Cole, this stopped bein' fun about two years ago!

• [during the gang's first robbery without Jesse] 

  Teller : Where's Jesse James?

  Cole : This here's the Younger gang, you understand? The Younger gang!

  Man : But the Youngers ride with Jesse James.

  Bob : Hey! You wanna die?

• Cole : Some Indian tracker you turned out to be, Tom.

  Comanche Tom : You paid me to find you Bluecoats, there they are.

• Cole : Ma'am, do me a favor, turn around and cover your eyes.

  Woman : Why?

  Cole : Cuz I'm gonna shoot this man and I don't think you wanna see it.

  [Woman turns] 

  Cole : Thank you.

• Cole : [about Frank]  Just because he reads all them books and he knows all them big words don't make him smart!

  Bob : Uh, yeah it does.

• Rollin H Parker : Howdy folks, how are you today.

  Cole : Howdy?

  Jesse James : Yeah, easterners.

• Cole : I'm the better soldier, Jesse!

  Jesse James : And I'm the better outlaw!

  Jimmy : You both hate the railroad, that's all that matters!

• [after Jimmy gets shot] 

  Cole : Bob, get me some bandages.

  Jesse James : And some whiskey, Bob.

  Jimmy : Too young for whiskey.

  Jesse James : I think this time we'll make an exception, Jim.

• Bob : They arrested Jesse! What have you done?

  Cole : What's that, Bob?

  Bob : What have you done, Cole?

  Cole : I ain't done nothing, Bob.

  Bob : Swear it.

  [points his gun at Jesse] 

  Bob : Swear on Jimmy's grave.

  Tom : Bob, you know Cole would never do such a thing. He and Jesse are best friends, cousins, blood brothers. Bob...

  Bob : [lowers his gun]  Sorry, Cole.

  [walks away] 

  Tom : If I find out you had anything to do with what happened to Jesse... I'll kill you myself.

• Cole : All right, ranchers, let's ride!

  Bob : Now I would sound just stupid sayin' something like that.

• Jesse James : Hands off your hip, Cole.

  Cole : Ain't scared are ya, Jesse?

  Jesse James : Pick your fights, cousin, you taught me that.

• Cole : Where you been buddy?

  Jesse James : What's going on?

  Cole : Well, nothin' really.

• Cole : WHOO! Goddamn, boy! When we get back to Missouri, I'ma' tell all them little gals 'bout how little Jesse James charged the whole Union army by hisself!

  General : Hey Cole, he keeps that up and he's liable to outrank you soon!

  Cole : Well, but I'll still be better lookin', won't I?