Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Robert Taylor: Rio

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• Rio : A man should have faith only in his dog and his enemies.

• Sheriff Parker : I thought you were working for Cameron.

  Rio : You can think almost anything you want.

  Sheriff Parker : I can also do almost anything I want. Like, putting you in the jug or even like taking your hardware away from you and turning you loose. What would you be in this town without your gun?

  Rio : Just another funeral nobody went to.

• Rio : I've seen you before. Where?

  Mexican at Bar : We have ridden together.

  Rio : That's possible. I've ridden with all the scum of the earth. Nothing personal, amigo. I'm scum, myself.

• Jose Esqueda : Can you imagine a smile on Barton's face?

  Rio : It's the only place where a smile could be ugly.

• Rio : You wouldn't kill anything; unless it was alive.

• King Cameron : I told her to go into Brownsville with the Priest. I might as well told the wind which way to blow.

  Rio : Whatever you say to a woman, except when you speak of love, you'll be talking to yourself.

• Jose Esqueda : They will unite and become strong. They will hunt us down. If we are unlucky enough to avoid their bullets, they will hang us! You wish to see that day, Rio? You thinking I'm afraid.

  Rio : Only of hanging. What does it matter to the dead man how he died?

  Jose Esqueda : They'll hang many men, Rio. And they will hang many more. But, not Jose Esqueda!

• Rio : Now, amigo, I'll bet you something. I bet you all this money that I can shoot a cigarette out of your mouth at 10 paces - without killing you.

  Mexican at Bar : How can I win?

  Rio : If I win, you won't have any money to worry about. If I miss, you won't have any further need of money. A worry of any kind. What could be better than that?

• Rio : My life, Señora, means little to anyone - and less to me.

• Rio : It's strange, Padre, the most valuable thing in the world is always the cheapest: life.

• Jose Esqueda : To break a horse is nothing. I'm going to let you break a man.

  Rio : That is something.

• Rio : In this country, Señora, the only sure thing about tomorrow is that it will arrive.

• Cordelia Cameron : You're not a man who takes a job to brand another man's cattle. You're not a Vaquero someone hires for a round up.

  Rio : What am I?

  Cordelia Cameron : I don't know what you are.