Lee I have the most stylish corner of the filthy storeroom out back. That, and one plate of beans. Ten dollars a day.
Tied for 7th most-quoted character in The Magnificent Seven (1960): in 8 of its 99 quotes
Most scenes with: Chris Adams (3), Vin (2)
Yes. The final supreme idiocy... coming here to hide. The deserter, hiding out in the middle of a battlefield.
More lines from Lee
4 quotes Lee Lee The lies you tell yourself. No enemies... alive. I have lost count of my enemies.
Lee Till you lose your nerve. You can feel it. Then you wait... for the bullet in the gun that is faster than you are
Lee One. There was a time when I would have caught all three. (after snatching at 3 flies on a table.)
Scenes with Lee
3 scenes Lee You need men for a job down in Mexico.
That's right.
Lee How long?
Four, six weeks.
Lee How much does the job pay?
I thought you were looking for the Johnson brothers.
Lee I found them. How much does the job pay?
Twenty. We leave tomorrow.
Your gun has gotten you everything you have. Isn't that true? Hmm? Well, isn't it true?
Sure. Everything. After a while, you can call bartenders and Faro dealers by their first names. Maybe two hundred of 'em. Rented rooms you live in, five hundred. Meals eaten in hash-houses, a thousand. Home, none. Wife, none. Kids... none. Propects, zero. Suppose I left anything out?
Yeah. Places you're tied down to, none. People with a hold on you, none. Men you step aside for, none.
Lee Insults swallowed, none. Enemies, none.
No enemies?
Lee Alive.
Now that's the kind of arithmetic I like!
Yeah. I did too, at your age.
[Calvera's men have escorted the Seven well outside the village and tossed their guns on the ground.]
Nobody throws me my own guns and says ride on. Nobody. (puts his gunbelt back on)
Took me a long time to learn my elbow from a hat rack. Right now, I belong in that border town, sleeping on white sheets. (puts his gunbelt on) But I'll ride back to that village.
You're crazy. all of you! They won't lift a finger to help. Think of the odds!
Harry, nobody's asking you to go back.
Ride on, Harry. It's all right.
You bet your sweet life I will! (grabs his gear and mounts) Come on, Lee. If they want to get killed, let 'em.
Go ahead, Lee. You don't owe anything to anybody.
Lee Except to myself. (dismounts and puts his guns on)
You're crazy! ALL of you!
