Jason Patric credited as playing...
James Bowie
- William Travis: We could try to get you out with an escort. If you're captured, perhaps given your condition, mercy would be extended.
- James Bowie: I don't deserve mercy. I do deserve a drink. You got anything stronger than water?
- [He smiles]
- William Travis: I don't drink, Jim, you know that. I gamble, go to whores, run off on wives... but drinking, I draw the line.
- James Bowie: You know, if you live five more years, you might just be a great man.
- William Travis: I think I will probably have to settle for what I am now.
- William Travis: Their response?
- James Bowie: Shit!
- [throws down the note from Santa Ana]
- James Bowie: Surrender at discretion... Buck.
- William Travis: Perhaps, Colonel, they'll only execute the officers.
- Crockett: I think we all just got promoted.
- David Crockett: That knife fight you got into, sand bar in Natchez. It was the one that got you written up. That all true?
- James Bowie: You believe everything you read now?
- David Crockett: I didn't read it, I heard it. And the way I heard it he put a swordcane and two shots in you.
- James Bowie: I don't remember.
- David Crockett: Figure ol' Sam will be here pretty soon. When he gets here we'll have a good ol' time.
- James Bowie: It was there shots. Sword came through my lung and went through my hand, and then I cut his heart out. Those ain't bears out there. Do you understand that... Davy?
- William Travis: Colonel, I became a little heated with you in front of your men. It was ill-advised and not terribly professional.
- James Bowie: Don't worry about it. Most of my men didn't even understand the words you were using.
- William Travis: In a few days, all of Texas will know of our situation.
- James Bowie: Tell me, Buck, in Alabama, precisely how many is "a few"?
- James Bowie: [about Crockett's coonskin cap] What happened to your cap? Crawl away?
- Davy Crockett: No, I only wear it when it's extra cold. The truth is, I only started wearing that thing... because of that fella in that play they did about me. People expect things.
- William Travis: Colonel Bowie, I understand that you plan to remove the cannon from this fort and take them to General Houston. I advise you not to do it; they are needed here.
- James Bowie: Where did you hear that, Buck?
- William Travis: Men tend to talk when they drink; your men tend to drink.
- James Bowie: I will do as I have been commanded; as for what that is, I will discuss it further with Col. Jamison.
- William Travis: Col. Jamison has left the fort on personal business; he left me in command.
- James Bowie: Whooee, that is a rapid rise, Billy. We better break out the long pants.