Nate and Hayes (1983)

Tommy Lee Jones: Captain Bully Hayes

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• Count Von Rittenberg : [about to duel with Capt. Bully Hayes]  Captain Hayes!

  Captain Bully Hayes : Admiral!

  Count Von Rittenberg : Count!

  Captain Bully Hayes : Whatever!

• Captain Bully Hayes : [to an interviewer, while waiting to be hanged]  Are you putting down in that book that I'm a pirate?

  Writer : Well, in a manner of speaking, I suppose one could say that I am, yes.

  Captain Bully Hayes : Good! Because I am! And a damn good one too. Oh, I never flew the skull and crossed bones. That's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit all my life at sea without regard for any man's law. That's not to say I didn't have my morals and standards. I got morals and standards. I never killed anyone who didn't have it coming. I never cheated an honest man. I never pillaged and I never raped.

• Captain Bully Hayes : If you want Ben, you don't knock on his front door.

  Nathaniel Williamson : He wouldn't answer?

  Captain Bully Hayes : He'd blow your brains out.

• Captain Bully Hayes : Not much of a drinker, are you.

  Nathaniel Williamson : No.

  Captain Bully Hayes : Well, it's a useful habit sometimes.

  Nathaniel Williamson : Like now?

  [belches] 

  Captain Bully Hayes : [laughs] 

  Nathaniel Williamson : I'd like to apologize.

  Captain Bully Hayes : For what?

  Nathaniel Williamson : I was very quick to judge you.

  Captain Bully Hayes : Aw, what do they say, son? Don't judge unle... , no, let's see, judge not, judge not, judge YE not...

  Nathaniel Williamson : Judge not lest ye be judged. Matthew 7, verse 1.

  Captain Bully Hayes : Hmm.

  Nathaniel Williamson : You knew what you were doing in Samoa. It would have worked out if it wasn't for me.

  Captain Bully Hayes : Oh, don't feel badly 'cause you don't know your way around a whorehouse.

• Captain Bully Hayes : You sound like a very sad and bitter old lady, Ben.