Bus Stop (1956)

Arthur O'Connell: Virgil Blessing

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• [first lines] 

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Are you ready, Virge?

  Virgil Blessing : Anytime.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Turn him out!

  [calf is released from chute] 

• Virgil Blessing : Bo you're 21 years old and we're on our way to a big city, Phoenix, Arizona. It's time you met up with a gal.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : A gal?

  Virgil Blessing : Oh, ain't nothin' to be scared of. You know, why, women and swimmin' is pretty much the same. You got good reflexes, boy. You'll make out just fine.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : If I do find me a gal, it ain't gonna be one of them gals from all those magazines. I already decided. I'm gonna get me a - angel.

  Virgil Blessing : A angel?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : That's right.

  Virgil Blessing : I wouldn't set my sights too high if I were you, Bo. You just figure on pickin' out some plain-lookin' little ol' gal, with a cooperatin' nature and a good personality. I mean, we gotta be realistic.

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I don't know anything about gals, Virge. Nothin' at all.

  Virgil Blessing : Well, that's what I mean. It's about time you learned. It ain't nothin' to be scared of, Bo. You know how much you like swimmin' when you got used to it. Besides, I know the idea crossed your mind once or twice. I seen you lookin' at them pictures in Orville's magazines.

• Virgil Blessing : What's some angel gonna want with a cowhand like you?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : What's that got to do with it? That steer this mornin', he didn't wanna get throwed, did he? Well, I throwed him. Some wild horse you're breakin', he don't wanna get broke, do he? But you don't let what he wants stop you. What makes you think a girl's any different?

  Virgil Blessing : This trip is gonna be mighty educational.

• Virgil Blessing : Bo, you have a terrible habit of overdoin' everything!

• Virgil Blessing : Bo! You're out in civilization!

• Virgil Blessing : You've been hustlin' me for drinks, 60 cents a shot! One thing I can't stand is a woman tries to make a sucker outta me!

• Virgil Blessing : He never even kissed a gal before he met you. You're forgettin' he spent his whole life pretty far out in the country.

  Chérie : I know what happens in the country. I'm from the country myself. I've been kissin' boys since I was knee high to...

  Virgil Blessing : Well, that's the point! You're kinda sophisticated for Bo.

  Chérie : He sure didn't kiss like it was the first time.

  Virgil Blessing : Well, Bo picks things up real quick.

  Chérie : First time, huh?

  Virgil Blessing : That's right.

  Chérie : Sure ain't never had that honor before!

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : What's the difference between a, a physical attraction and, well, just a regular attraction?

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Well, a gal can be attracted to a fella for lots of reasons. His mind, for instance.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : His mind?

  Virgil Blessing : Sure. Like if he's smart or reads poetry or somethin'.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : No kiddin'?

  Virgil Blessing : That's right.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : I can read and write. I don't know no poetry. But I can recite the Gettysburg Address. Would that count?

  Virgil Blessing : It might, Bo. I doubt it, but it might.

• Virgil Blessing : This whole thing is probably my fault. I told you it was about time you started learnin' somethin' about women. Now, I ain't sayin' this particular gal you picked out ain't a good one to practice on. But a fella can't go around marryin' the first gal he meets.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : Why not?

• Virgil Blessing : [singing]  If the ocean was whiskey, And I was a duck, I'd swim to the bottom, And never come up, Rye whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry, If I don't get rye whiskey, I surely will die...

• Virgil Blessing : There are some gals who don't like to be pushed and grabbed and lassoed and drug into buses in the middle of the night.

  Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : How else was I gonna get her on the bus?

• Beauregard 'Bo' Decker : You've been against this right from the beginning!

  Virgil Blessing : That's right. First 'cause I figured the lady wasn't good enough for you. But now 'cause I figure you ain't good enough for her!