Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)

Irene Papas: Jocasta Constantine

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• Jocasta Constantine : [Offering to loan Steve ten dollars]  I'd lend you more, if you would use the money to go back home.

  Steve Miller : Go home? Why?

  Jocasta Constantine : Steve, we've only talked a few times since you came here. But I know this about you. You are gentle. You haven't been used, and made hard. This is not your kind of life. Look at the men in the bunkhouse: Baldy, and Fat Jones, and Abe. Never a chance for a family, or a home. In ten years, you're gonna' be like them - a "nobody" on a horse. That's what a wrangler is: a "nobody" on a horse. With bad teeth, broken bones, double hernia, and lice!

• Jocasta Constantine : Go home. Before you kill your first man. Or put a rope on your first hanging, and it begins to eat you up alive. Learn a decent trade. Find yourself a nice girl and get married. Live in a place where you can bring up children. A normal life. A normal life that... Steve, I... I'm sorry. Sometimes I think you're my own man. The old dreams.

• Jocasta Constantine : [to Mr. Rodock]  I understand now why you never married or ever wanted to marry. To marry you have to invest your heart in someone. How can you invest if you don't trust?

• Jocasta Constantine : [to Rodock]  Horses you know, but about human beings you know nothing.