Billy the Kid (1941)

Robert Taylor: Billy Bonney

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• [later Edith Keating to Billy] 

  Edith : Jim's got roots here.

  Billy : I got a horse and the west is wide.

• Jim 'Holy' Sherwood : On the level, Billy. You ought to get off the bottle.

  Billy : Bottle? I've never been drunk in my life.

  Jim 'Holy' Sherwood : I don't mean liquor. I mean another kind of bottle - excitement... phony adventure. It's no good, Billy.

• Billy : Yeah, I'll play along, Hickey. You just keep four aces in the deck.

• Dan Hickey : Left-handed, eh?

  Billy : I'm saving my right to shake hands with friends.

• Billy : Don't he get a badge or something?

  Eric Keating : Well, he didn't give me a badge for him. But... wait... there's a United States eagle on this dollar. That's all you need!

• Jim 'Holy' Sherwood : Don't you get fed up sometimes?

  Billy : Fed up with what?

  Jim 'Holy' Sherwood : Oh, rollin' around like a tumbleweed, being hunted, and never knowin' who's behind the next rock. I mean...

  Billy : I know what you mean. I like it!

• Dan Hickey : Nobody quits my outfit and stays healthy!

  Billy : Which one of you guys wants to start making me unhealthy?

• Tim Ward : Son, you've got a hole in your hat.

  Billy : Ventilation.