A character in Blazing Saddles (1974)

Jim, The Waco Kid quotes from Blazing Saddles (1974)

Gene Wilder

4th most-quoted character in Blazing Saddles (1974): in 18 of its 93 quotes
Most scenes with: Bart (8), Lyle (2)

A line from Jim, The Waco Kid

What's a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?

More lines from Jim, The Waco Kid

8 quotes
Jim, The Waco Kid

Well, my name's Jim. But most people call me...Jim.

Jim, The Waco Kid

Well, you devious son of a bitch.

Jim, The Waco Kid

Well, it got so that every piss-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco Kid. I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word "draw" in my sleep. Then one day I was just walking down the street, when I heard a voice behind me say, "Reach for it, mister!" I spun around, and there I was face-to-face with a six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass! So I limped to the nearest saloon, crawled inside a whiskey bottle, and I've been there ever since.

Jim, The Waco Kid

Another twenty five years and you'll be able to shake their hands in broad daylight.

Jim, The Waco Kid

What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter?" You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...morons.

Jim, The Waco Kid

Well, Mongo ain't exactly a "who", he's more of a "what".

Jim, The Waco Kid
[about Mongo]

No, no, don't do that. If you shoot him you'll just make him mad.

Jim, The Waco Kid
[to Bart after he shoots and kills Lamarr]

Wow, you shot the bad guy.

Scenes with Jim, The Waco Kid

9 scenes

Are we awake?

The Waco Kid

We are not sure. Are we...black?

Yes we are.

The Waco Kid

Then we're awake. But we're very puzzled.

So, since I am your host, and you are my guest. What's your pleasure? What would you like to do?

The Waco Kid

Oh I don't know...play chess...screw...

Well, let's play chess!

Man, why you do that to yourself?

The Waco Kid

Oh, you don't really wanna know...

I do, I do!

The Waco Kid

Well, if you must pry...

I must, I must!

Jim
[Last lines]

Where you headed, cowboy?

Nowhere special.

Jim

Nowhere special. Always wanted to go there.

Come on.

[Jim grabs a liquor bottle]

Maybe you should have something to eat first.

Jim

Oh, no thanks. Food makes me sick [Takes a long drink]

A man drink like that and he don't eat, he is going to die!

Jim
[Eagerly]

When?

What's your name?

Jim

My name's Jim, but most people call me - Jim...I used to be known as the Waco Kid.

The Waco Kid, he was the fastest gun in the West!

Jim
[Coldly]

The East, too.

Jim
[taunting Klansmen]

Hey boys! Look what I got here!

[pulls Bart out from behind a rock]

Hey, where are da white women at?
[The Klansmen chase Jim and Bart behind the rock and are quickly knocked out.]

Jim

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Don't pay no attention to that alky. He can't even hold a gun, much less shoot it.

[Jim preps himself by licking his finger and blowing it; Lyle, Taggart and their men take aim at Bart]

Like I said, on the count of three. One. Two. Three.

[Jim draws both of his own guns, shooting those of Taggart and Company out of their hands. The railroad workers cheer and congratulate Jim, while the villains struggle to take in what just happened]

Well, don't just stand there lookin' stupid, grasping your hands in pain. How about a little applause for the Waco Kid?
[Taggart, Lyle and their men grudgingly applaud Jim.]

Qualifications.

Rapist

Rape, murder, arson and rape.

You said rape twice.

Rapist

I like rape.

[Chuckles]

He'll do.

Charming. Sign right here.

[The rapist signs his name]

Very good. Badge. Next. Qualifications?

Gum-chewing outlaw

Arson, armed robbery...mayhem.

Wait a minute. What have you got in your mouth?

Gum-chewing outlaw
[Stops chewing]

Noth-um!

"Noth-um", eh? Lyle.

[Pulls gum out of outlaw's mouth]

Gum!

Chewing gum in line, eh? I hope you brought enough for everybody!

Gum-chewing outlaw
[panicked]

...I didn't know there was gonna be so many! [Lamarr shoots him dead]

Jim
[Observing with Bart from a distance]

Boy, is he strict!

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