High Noon (1952) · 33 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in High Noon (1952): in 6 of its 33 quotes
Most scenes with: Kane (4)
It's no good. I've got to go back, Amy.
Amy Why?
This is crazy. I haven't even got any guns.
Amy Then let's go on. Hurry.
No, that's what I've been thinkin'. They're making me run. I've never run from anybody before.
Amy I don't understand any of this.
Well, I haven't got time to tell ya.
Amy Then don't go back, Will.
I've got to. That's the whole thing.
I sent a man up five years ago for murder. He was supposed to hang. But up North, they commuted it to life and now he's free. I don't know how. Anyway, it looks like he's coming back.
Amy I still don't understand.
He was always wild and kind of crazy. He'll probably make trouble.
Amy But that's no concern of yours, not anymore.
I'm the one who sent him up.
Amy Well, that was part of your job. That's finished now. They've got a new marshal.
He won't be here until tomorrow. Seems to me I've got to stay. Anyway, I'm the same man with or without this. [He pins his badge on his vest]
Amy Oh, that isn't so.
I expect he'll come lookin' for me. Three of his old bunch are waiting at the depot.
Amy That's exactly why we ought to go.
They'll just come after us, four of 'em, and we'd be all alone on the prairie.
Amy We've got an hour.
What's an hour?...What's a hundred miles? We'd never be able to keep that store, Amy. They'd come after us and we'd have to run again, as long as we live.
Amy No we wouldn't, not if they didn't know where to find us. Oh Will! Will, I'm begging you, please let's go.
I can't.
Amy Don't try to be a hero. You don't have to be a hero, not for me.
I'm not trying to be a hero. If you think I like this, you're crazy.
Look Amy, this is my town. I've got friends here. I'll swear in a bunch of special deputies and with a posse behind me, maybe there won't even be any trouble.
Amy You know there'll be trouble.
Then, it's better to have it here. I'm sorry, honey, I know how you feel about it.
Amy Do you?
Of course I do. I know it's against your religion and all. Sure I know how you feel.
Amy But you're doing it just the same. Oh Will, we were married just a few minutes ago. We've got our whole lives ahead of us. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
You know I've only got an hour and I've got lots to do. Stay at the hotel until it's over.
Amy No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait. I won't do it...I mean it. If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here.
I've got to stay.
Amy, you've changed your mind.
Amy I thought you had changed yours. No, Will, I have my ticket.
Amy Who is Miss Ramirez?
Mrs. Ramirez used to be a friend of your husband's a while back. Before that, she was a friend of Frank Miller's.
Amy You don't like my husband, do you?
One thing - this place was always busy when Frank Miller was around. I'm not the only one. There's plenty people around here think he's got a come-uppance coming. You asked me, ma'am, so I'm telling you.
Amy That man downstairs, the clerk, he said things about you and Will. I've been trying to understand why he wouldn't go with me, and now all I can think of is that it's got to be because of you...Let him go, he still has a chance. Let him go.
He isn't staying for me. I haven't spoken to him for a year - until today. I am leaving on the same train you are...What kind of woman are you? How can you leave him like this? Does the sound of guns frighten you that much?
Amy I've heard guns. My father and my brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side but that didn't help them any when the shooting started. My brother was nineteen. I watched him die. That's when I became a Quaker. I don't care who's right or who's wrong. There's got to be some better way for people to live. Will knows how I feel about it.
I hate this town. I always hated it - to be a Mexican woman in a town like this.
Amy I understand.
You do? That's good. I don't understand you. No matter what you say. If Kane was my man, I'd never leave him like this. I'd get a gun. I'd fight.
Amy Why don't you?
He is not my man. He's yours.
