The Big Country (1958)
Carroll Baker: Patricia Terrill
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Quotes
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Patricia Terrill : But if he loved me, why would he let me think he was a coward?
Julie Maragon : If you love him, why would you think it? How many times does a man have to win you?
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Patricia Terrill : [discussing McKay's "cowardice"] Don't you care what people think of you?
James McKay : I'm not responsible for what people think, Pat, only for what I am.
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Patricia Terrill : Well, even when you rode Old Thunder, everybody knew it. Ramon knew it. Julie knew it. But me? Not a word. Why? You know how much it meant to me... with everybody laughing at me. And don't tell me they weren't. But you wouldn't do it for me. Why not? Why not for me?
James McKay : There's some things a man has to prove to himself alone... not to anyone else.
Patricia Terrill : Not even to the woman he loves.
James McKay : Least of all her... if she loves him.
