Jesse James
You ever count the stars? I can't ever get the same number, they keep changin' on me.
I don't even know what a star is, exactly...
Jesse James
Well, your body knows, it's your mind that forgot.
Jesse James
Go away.
Robert Ford
Used to be nobody could sneak up on Jesse James.
Jesse James
Now you think otherwise?
Robert Ford
I ain't never seen you without your guns, neither.
Jesse James
Can't figure it out: do you want to be like me or do you want to BE me?
Robert Ford
I'm just making fun is all.
Jesse James
You know I'm real comfortable with your brother. Hell, he's ugly as sin and he smells like a skunk and he's so ignorant he couldn't drive nails in the snow, but he's sort of easy to be around. I can't say the same for you, Bob.
Robert Ford
I'm sorry to hear you say that.
Jesse James
You know how it is when you're with your girlfriend and the moon is out and you know she wants to be kissed even though she never said so?
Robert Ford
Yeah.
Jesse James
You're giving me signs that grieve my soul and make me wonder if maybe your mind's been changed about me.
Robert Ford
What do you want me to do? Swear my good faith on the Bible?
Jesse James
You know what John Newman Edwards once wrote about me? He said I didn't trust two men in ten thousand and was even cautious around them. The government's sort of run me ragged. I'm going the long way around the barn to say I've been feeling cornered and just plain ornery of late and I'd be pleased if you'd accept the gun as my way of apologizing.
Robert Ford
Heaven knows I'd be ornerier if I were in your position.
Jesse James
No. I haven't been acting correctly. I can't hardly recognize myself sometimes when I'm greased. I go on journeys out of my body and look at my red hands and my mean face and I wonder about that man who's gone so wrong. I've been becoming a problem to myself.
