Slow West (2015)
Kodi Smit-McPhee: Jay Cavendish
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Quotes
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Jay Cavendish : I know why you need my help
Silas Selleck : Oh yeah?
Jay Cavendish : Yeah. You're lonely. You're a lonely man.
Silas Selleck : Sure, kid.
Jay Cavendish : "Sure, kid." "Let's drift." Silent, lonely drifter. You're a lonely, lonely man.
Silas Selleck : No need to concern over me. Hold still.
Jay Cavendish : All I'm sayin' is there's more to life than just surviving.
Silas Selleck : Yeah. There's dyin'. Survival ain't just how to skin a jackrabbit. It's knowing when to bluster and when to hush. When to take a beating and when to strike.
Jay Cavendish : Where's your folks?
Silas Selleck : Father's in the ground in Ireland, mother's in the ground in Canada.
Jay Cavendish : So what keeps you from joining them?
Silas Selleck : I don't know, kid. Quit asking me shit. I was fine 'til you showed up.
Jay Cavendish : *I* showed up? *You* showed up.
Silas Selleck : Yeah, well maybe I'm tired of showin' up.
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Werner : So, now... East. What news?
Jay Cavendish : Violence and suffering. And West?
Werner : Dreams and toil.
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Jay Cavendish : "Wanted Dead or Alive..."
Silas Selleck : Dead or Dead, kid.
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[in french]
Congolese Singer 1 : Did you enjoy our music?
Jay Cavendish : Yes. I enjoyed the song very much.
Congolese Singer 1 : It's a song about love.
Jay Cavendish : Love is universal, like death.
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Jay Cavendish : [gazing up at the sky] Same stars, same moon... One day we'll be wanderin' 'round that moon. They'll build a railroad. A railroad up and down the ways. A railroad to the moon. And when we get there... the first thing we'll do... is hunt the natives down.
Silas Selleck : No Indians on the moon.
Jay Cavendish : No, the natives of the moon. The moon people.
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Jay Cavendish : It's just a shame.
Silas Selleck : Is it?
Jay Cavendish : No. No it's not. Charles Darwin talks of evolution by natural selection.
Silas Selleck : For our sake, let's hope he's wrong.
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Jay Cavendish : All I'm sayin' is... there's more to life than just survivin'.
Silas Selleck : Yeah, there's dyin'.
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Jay Cavendish : I'm Jay Cavendish. Son of Lady Cavendish.
Union Officer : We're all sons of bitches...
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Jay Cavendish : I killed a woman yesterday.
Werner : Part and parcel.
Jay Cavendish : You care not to share your company with a murderer?
Werner : I'd be a lonely man if I did. I am no judge, nor father. In a short time this will be a long time ago.