Wild Bill (1995)

Jeff Bridges: Wild Bill Hickok

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Quotes 

• [Will Plummer sends in a woman to challenge Wild Bill to a gunfight] 

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : What did he say?

  Young Woman with Parasol : He said that you were... a horse molester.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Did he say what horse?

• Carl Mann : What kind of whiskey do you favor?

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Carl, I prefer it in a glass. Other than that, it's all good.

• [Jane surprises Bill by giving him a wet sloppy kiss] 

  Calamity Jane : Just for old times' sake.

  [Bill wipes off his mouth] 

  Calamity Jane : You wipin' it off?

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : No. I'm rubbin' it in.

• Charley Price : This town... I really think it's like something out of the Bible.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : What part of the Bible?

  Charley Price : The part right before God gets angry.

• [Wild Bill and Calamity Jane are interrupted by Jack McCall during a romantic moment] 

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : You inconsiderate bastard.

• California Joe : Don't kill him, Bill!

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Man knows what he wants!

  California Joe : Bad luck to kill an Injun in a religious frame of mind!

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : He chose it!

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : You ought to know better than to touch another man's hat.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : [to McCall]  I'll buy you one. Whiskey's good for a man... helps him put things in perspective.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Shouldn't touch another man's hat.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : What the hell does this whistler want to fight me fer?

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : You'd best hand over your gun, Phil. Otherwise I'm just gonna have to step over there and slap you around some.

• Doctor : Keep your eyes open. You have glaucoma, Mr Hickok. It's often a result from too much proximity to, uh, infected females. Keep your eyes straight ahead. If you take my meaning.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I had some trouble about ten years back. Cleared right up when the local doc stuck a hot wire up my privates.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I don't apologize! Not to you or anybody else. Not ever!

• Calamity Jane : You know, they say sometimes a dream might be a foretellin'.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : It wasn't just a dream. It was a fact!

• Calamity Jane : You can see me about as much as you want. I guess that's always been the case, ain't it? I'm just a little too available.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I gotta be available too. Awful lot of people want a piece of Wild Bill. Let's have us a card game and a drink.

• Calamity Jane : You ain't the same, Bill.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : How's that?

  Calamity Jane : I don't know. You just - got kinda different from before is all.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Maybe. I don't know. You got a bathhouse in this town?

  Calamity Jane : Sure could use one.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Maybe I drank a little too much last night. Had me some dreams. Had too much on that Chinese pipe.

• Calamity Jane : I would just like some kind of goddamn explanation. You owe me that much.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I don't owe nobody nothin'. I don't explain myself. Not to you, not to some punk-ass kid! Not to nobody!

• Charley Price : Greetings, Jack. Charles Prince, friend of Bill's. Could be that Wild Bill's made a few mistakes, here and there, over the years, but - well, it's understandable. But, past is past.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Shut up, Charley.

  Jack McCall : Yeah, shut up, Charley.

• Susannah Moore : I bet you have your way with lots of girls. Bet you tell 'em all a whole pack of lies.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I ain't lyin'. But I would if I couldn't figure no other way with you.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : You comin' with me?

  Susannah Moore : I just think you're lyin'.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I ain't lyin'. I'll take you on up to Springfield.

  Susannah Moore : You had your way and you want to again and you'll just say any ol' thing.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I thank you for your kindness.

  Song Lew : Wild Bill.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Maybe you can help me. Where the hell did things go wrong? This kid, Miss Jane, trouble with my eyes.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Had me another bad dream on the Chinese pipe. Things are comin' back to haunt me.

  Calamity Jane : I figured it was somethin' like that. You got to stay away from that stuff. Stick with whisky.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I have to admit, there's something about this kid that spooks me. Must be his ma. She was one hell of a damn fine woman. She could talk good, drink, tear off a piece. I had a lot of good times with Miss Susannah Moore.

  Calamity Jane : I'd like us to be in love like you and Susannah Moore. She was the one, wasn't she? The one you loved most of all. That's why this kid's got a hold to you. She was young and purty, and it was before you was the great Wild Bill. And you loved her as close as you ever did anybody, in an innocent kinda way. Ain't that right?

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Yeah, I suppose.

• Calamity Jane : Love you, Bill.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Right now, I love you too, Jane. Maybe we'd just better get on with it, hmm?

  [they get on with it] 

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Goddammit. A Negra!

  Jubal Pickett : Just a gun-sharp. Don't mind my color. I make a livin'.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : You ungrateful son o' bitch. I almost got my ass shot off 20 times tryin' to free your type during the war!

  Jubal Pickett : Well, that was mighty white of you, Wild Bill.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : You and me, we had our time in Cheyenne, didn't we? Hmm? We had something kinda special for a while.

  Calamity Jane : Yeah. Listen to us, talking about our pleasures.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Mmm. As if they mattered a damn. All this love talk, I got me a hard-on. You wanna see?

  Calamity Jane : Surely.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Don't want no back of the head shot like Mr Lincoln.

• Charley Price : What if I could persuade Wild Bill to let you go? Erase the shadow that he has cast over you. Apologize.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Go drown in crap, Charley.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Is this your college education that makes you dribble on so?

• Charley Price : Apologize for wrongs, real and imagined? Shake hands, have a drink? You'll need all the friends you can get when your eyes get worse.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : I don't apologize.

  Calamity Jane : See, he figures whatever he done, even if it wasn't perfect, was justifiable.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Could you just jump over the bullshit?

• California Joe : Bill waded into this mob of drunks, sharps, whores, gold panners, mental deficients, liquored soldiers, all of 'em friends of the great Texas gunfighter, Phil...

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Phil Coe. Another one of them bullshit Texans. Never much liked any of 'em. Mean sons of bitches, usually cheat at cards, never take a bath.

• James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Goddamn soldiers! Never liked 'em, any of 'em. Never liked bein' one, neither. Wasn't cut out for the Army life. Never liked them Eastern bastards, neither.

• California Joe : Bill heard footsteps runnin' behind him. He turns and fires, and accidentally kills his own deputy, Mike Williams. Then he tells the crowd to clear the streets - which they done - and he stands there and cries over the body.

  James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok : Nothin' like that ever happened. It was windy. The dust got in my eyes.