Undertaker: If you would like to sleep in a coffin, it would be all right.
Rooster Cogburn: I'd give $3 now for a pickled buffalo tongue.
Mattie Ross: I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell.
Tom Chaney: Everything happens to me. Now I'm shot by a child.
Mattie Ross: Do you need a good lawyer? Ned Pepper: I need a good judge!
Moon: Quincy, he never played me false until he killed me.
There’s something sexy about a naked woman gritting her teeth in pain, even when it shouldn’t be sexy.
I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
Don't ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes.
Mattie Ross: And "futile", Marshal Cogburn, "pursuit would be futile"? It's not spelled "f-u-d-e-l."
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
[first title card] Title card: The wicked flee when none pursueth. Proverbs 28:1
Rooster Cogburn: [outside the cabin] Who is in there? Emmett Quincy: [from inside the cabin] A Methodist and a son of a bitch!
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.
I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.
Bea: You can give up, let yourself go... or grit your teeth and hang on like stupid people do.
[from trailer] Lucky Ned Pepper: I will kill this girl. Rooster Cogburn: Biggest mistake you ever made.
