Rooster Cogburn: Damn that Texan - when you need him, he's dead. LaBoeuf: I ain't dead yet, you bushwhacker. Hang on.
[Rooster watches Mattie struggle to bring water up to their camp] Rooster Cogburn: You look like a hog on ice.
Rooster Cogburn: Any man who packs a big bore Sharps carbine could come in mighty handy, if we're attacked by buffalo... or elephants.
Mattie Ross: I will not bandy words with a drunkard. LaBoeuf: That's real smart. You've done nothing when you've bested a fool.
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.
Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.
The fight wasn’t over,” I said through gritted teeth. “I’d have won it.” Probably. “Right,” he said. “And something just flew past your window. It was oinking.
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.
I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.
You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.
I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.
Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.
Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandw...
LaBoeuf: I've just come from Yell County. Mattie Ross: We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County. LaBoeuf: A saucy line will not get you far with me.
Rooster Cogburn: That Chinamen is running them cheap shells on me again. LaBoeuf: I thought you gonna say the sun was in your eyes. That is to say, your Eye!
Mattie Ross: Well I need a pony, and I'll pay you ten dollars for one of them. Col. Stonehill: No, that's a lot price, no no... wait a minute... are we trading again?
Rooster Cogburn: [watching Mattie ford the river hanging on the back of her horse] By God. She reminds me of me. LaBoeuf: Well, then we might just not get along.
Mattie Ross: I'm here to take you back to Fort Smith and hang you. Tom Chaney: And I think I will not go, now how do you like that?
Mattie Ross: [watching Rooster load his revolver] Why do you keep that one chamber empty? Rooster Cogburn: So I won't shoot my foot off.
