Etta Place [before riding the bicycle]
Do you know what you're doing?
Theoretically.
Played by Katharine Ross 
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) · 36 quotes
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) · 36 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): in 5 of its 36 quotes
Most scenes with: Butch Cassidy (3), Sundance Kid (3)
Scenes with Etta Place
5 scenes Etta Place Do you believe I'm broke already?
Etta Place Why is there never any money, Butch?
Well, I swear, Etta, I don't know. I've been working like a dog all my life and I can't get a penny ahead.
Etta Place Sundance says it's because you're a soft touch, and always taking expensive vacations, and buying drinks for everyone, and you're a rotten gambler.
Well that might have something to do with it.
[Etta is surprised in her home as she is undressing by Sundance]
Keep going, teacher lady. [He points his pistol at her] It's OK, don't mind me. Keep on going. [She removes her outer slip] Put down your hair. Shake your head.
Etta Place [Cocking his gun, he threatens for her to undo the last remaining bits of clothing. Then he rises and approaches toward her with amorous intentions to force himself upon her] [sadly]
Do you know what I wish?
What?
Etta Place That once, you'd get here on time!
Did you say they were hired permanent?
Etta Place No, just until they kill you.
[to Etta]
What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you. But the minute you start to whine or make a nuisance, I don't care where we are, I'm dumping you flat.
Don't sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight.
Etta Place I'm 26, and I'm single, and a school teacher, and that's the bottom of the pit. And the only excitement I've known is here with me now. I'll go with you, and I won't whine, and I'll sew your socks, and I'll stitch you when you're wounded, and I'll do anything you ask of me except one thing. I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene if you don't mind.
...
[arriving in Bolivia]
You know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your money in Bolivia, I checked on it.
What could they have here that you could possibly want to buy?
...
Jeesh, all Bolivia can't look like this.
How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we're standing now. This might be the Atlantic City, New Jersey of all Bolivia for all you know.
Look I know a lot more about Bolivia than you know about Atlantic City, New Jersey I can tell you that.
AHA. You do huh? I was born there, I was born in New Jersey. Was brought up there, so...
You're from the east? I didn't know that.
The total tonnage of what you don't know is enough to shatter...
Etta Place I'm not sure we're accomplishing as much as we'd like here.
Listen, you're job is to back me up, because you'd starve without me. [turns to Butch] And you, your job is to shut up.
He'll feel a lot better after he's robbed a couple of banks.
Bolivia. Ha-ha-ha-haa.
