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Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Nick Stahl, and Roger Aaron Brown in Tall Tale (1995)

Patrick Swayze: Pecos Bill

Tall Tale

Patrick Swayze credited as playing...

Pecos Bill

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Quotes12

  • Pecos Bill: Don't lose the dream!
  • Pecos Bill: Not as hot as the summer of '88 when the chickens laid fried eggs and the babies cried sawdust.
  • Paul Bunyan: Does this story have a point or does it go on and on and on like this stinkin' desert?
  • Pecos Bill: I ought to plug you two right now, but I make it a rule never to kill a man on Sunday.
  • Zeb: Today's Wednesday.
  • Daniel Hackett: Who are you?
  • Pecos Bill: I'm a ring-tailed roarer. I can draw faster, shoot straighter, ride harder and drink longer than any man alive. I ride cyclones and I wrestle...
  • Daniel Hackett: You got a name, don't you?
  • Pecos Bill: I'm getting' to that. I'm the rip-snortinest cowboy that ever rode north, south, east or west of the Rio Grande. I'm Pecos Bill.
  • [on seeing a beautiful swarm of butterflies]
  • Pecos Bill: Kind of makes it all worthwhile, don't you think?
  • Daniel Hackett: Pecos, don't go!
  • Pecos Bill: Don't worry about it! You can handle things from here!
  • Pecos Bill: I ain't apologizin' to no ox!
  • [last lines]
  • Pecos Bill: He's all yours Daniel Hackett!
  • Daniel Hackett: Pecos!
  • Pecos Bill: So long Daniel! Take good care of Widowmaker!
  • Daniel Hackett: Pecos, don't go!
  • Pecos Bill: Don't worry about it! You can handle things from here. Yee ha-ha! I'm a ring tailed roarer. I can draw faster, shoot straighter, ride harder and drink longer than any man alive, l'm the rip-snortingest cowboy that ever rode North, South, East or West of the Rio Grande. I'm Pecos Bill! Yee ha-ha!
  • Daniel Hackett: So long, Pecos!
  • Pecos Bill: We came to say goodbye, Daniel.
  • Daniel Hackett: I knew you would.
  • Paul Bunyan: [Creeping up on Daniel and Pecos Bill who are trapped in a cage Bunyan made] Never enough for you termites, is it? Not enough you swindled me out of my camp, robbed me of my trade, now you want my woods too. You want it all! I'm makin' my stand. At least if I go down swingin', I go down like a man!
  • Pecos Bill: Ah, hush up you log-brain!
  • Paul Bunyan: Pecos?
  • [Pecos Bill smiles]
  • Paul Bunyan: Let me take a gander at ya.
  • [Pecos proudly shows off his profile]
  • Paul Bunyan: You steamin' pile of buffalo puckey. You're still ugly.
  • Pecos Bill: You got some business to settle, ain't ya?
  • Daniel Hackett: Why would you go out of your way for me?
  • Calamity Jane: Well, paint my toenails and curl my hair!
  • Pecos Bill: Calamity? My cactus flower!
  • Calamity Jane: Don't cactus flower me, you double-crossing dog!
  • Pecos Bill: I missed you, darlin'. If only you knew how much!
  • Calamity Jane: I know too well, you flea-infested little weasel!
  • Pecos Bill: Calamity, you look mighty pretty tonight.
  • Calamity Jane: Sweet talking me? You overgrown, mealy-mouthed, two-faced snivellin' snake! You gutless, brainless, heartless sidewinder!
  • [Calamity fires her guns at Pecos standing up against a wall. He stands motionless as every shot misses him]
  • Pecos Bill: You ain't still sore about Amarillo, are you?

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