Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysToronto Int'l Film FestivalHispanic Heritage MonthIMDb Stars to WatchSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro
James Cagney, Stephen McNally, and Irene Papas in Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)

Irene Papas: Jocasta Constantine

Tribute to a Bad Man

Irene Papas credited as playing...

Jocasta Constantine

Photos6

View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster

Quotes6

  • Jocasta Constantine: [Offering to loan Steve ten dollars] I'd lend you more, if you would use the money to go back home.
  • Steve Miller: Go home? Why?
  • Jocasta Constantine: Steve, we've only talked a few times since you came here. But I know this about you. You are gentle. You haven't been used, and made hard. This is not your kind of life. Look at the men in the bunkhouse: Baldy, and Fat Jones, and Abe. Never a chance for a family, or a home. In ten years, you're gonna' be like them - a "nobody" on a horse. That's what a wrangler is: a "nobody" on a horse. With bad teeth, broken bones, double hernia, and lice!
  • Jocasta Constantine: Go home. Before you kill your first man. Or put a rope on your first hanging, and it begins to eat you up alive. Learn a decent trade. Find yourself a nice girl and get married. Live in a place where you can bring up children. A normal life. A normal life that... Steve, I... I'm sorry. Sometimes I think you're my own man. The old dreams.
  • Jocasta Constantine: [to Mr. Rodock] I understand now why you never married or ever wanted to marry. To marry you have to invest your heart in someone. How can you invest if you don't trust?
  • Jocasta Constantine: [to Rodock] Horses you know, but about human beings you know nothing.
  • [Jocasta Constantine can be seen approaching Jeremy Rodock with a bottle of wine after having just finished speaking with McNulty]
  • Jocasta Constantine: Here, my good friend. My friend with no patience.
  • [Rodock looks at the bottle for a few seconds before looking up at Jocasta]
  • Jeremy Rodock: Did you know him in Cheyenne?
  • Jocasta Constantine: [holding the bottle up towards Rodock] My friend who asks questions.
  • Jeremy Rodock: [takes the bottle] Aw, forget it. He wasn't born the day I met you.
  • [Rodock smiles]
  • Jeremy Rodock: I'm kind of glad he wasn't.
  • [Jocasta laughs as Rodock holds up the bottle]
  • [Jeremy Rodock can be seen talking with Jocasta Constantine. As they are doing this, a door opens and Steve Miller can be seen entering]
  • Jeremy Rodock: You alright, Steve?
  • Steve Miller: [Nods] Fine.
  • [Rodock nods and exits the room as Jocasta approaches Steve]
  • Jocasta Constantine: Did you have enough to eat?
  • Steve Miller: Yeah.
  • [Jocasta takes a set of dishes at Steve is carrying]
  • Jocasta Constantine: You have not been taught to say thank you?
  • Steve Miller: You know? I bet you was a schoolteacher.
  • Jocasta Constantine: [laughs] I never went to school in my life. But my father was a scholar, and I was his best student. I knew French, and German, and Latin, and a little bit of English before I was sixteen.

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb App
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.