We will fight with guns if we have them. If we don't... with machetes, axes, clubs, anything!
Chris Adams
Yul Brynner · 29 quotes
Vin
Steve McQueen · 20 quotes
Harry Luck
Brad Dexter · 15 quotes
Bernardo O'Reilly
Charles Bronson · 14 quotes
Calvera
Eli Wallach · 14 quotes
Chico
Horst Buchholz · 11 quotes
Britt
James Coburn · 8 quotes
Lee
Robert Vaughn · 8 quotes
the Old Man
Vladimir Sokoloff · 8 quotes
Hilario
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos · 7 quotes
Miguel
John A. Alonzo · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Chris Adams & Vin (11), Chris Adams & Harry Luck (4), Chris Adams & Bernardo O'Reilly (4)
The Magnificent Seven quotes
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Sotero Neighbors, I drink to our friends. They armed us, fought at our side, and will forever live in our hearts.
Tomás
Only the dead are without fear.
Undertaker
I've always treated every man the same – just as another future customer.
You need men for a job down in Mexico.
That's right.
How long?
Four, six weeks.
How much does the job pay?
I thought you were looking for the Johnson brothers.
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.
Insults swallowed, none. Enemies, none.
No enemies?
Alive.
Now that's the kind of arithmetic I like!
Yeah. I did too, at your age.
Harry! Good to see you again. What are you doing in this dump?
I, uh, heard you got a contract open.
Oh, not for a high-stepper like you.
A dollar bill always looks as big to me as a bedspread.
It's just eating money, Harry. A gold eagle, room and board. Six weeks gunning for some farmers.
Ah, you old Cajun! You don't talk so good, but you always know what's going on.
Now, Harry --
(to villagers)
Uh, con permiso. (he closes the door and turns to Chris) All right. All that's on top. What's underneath?
Only what I told you.
Gold? Cattle? Payroll?
Only what I told you.
Oh, sure, sure. Just tell me when you can.
Harry, please don't understand me so fast.
Look, never mind. (winks) I'm in!
Henry (corset salesman) Where are you from?
[Points thumb toward his back]
Henry (corset salesman) Oh, well where you headed?
[Points finger in front of him]
Did you have any luck?
Found a man who would have been perfect. With gun or knife, couldn't ask for any better. But he wouldn't do it.
Hilario : The money, it was not enough?
He doesn't give a hoot about money.
A man in this line of work who doesn't care about money?
Men in this line of work are not all alike. Some care about nothing but money. Others, for reasons of their own, enjoy only the danger.
And the competition.
If he is the best with a gun and a knife, with whom does he compete?
Himself.
We need help.
We must buy guns. We know nothing about them. Will you buy them for us?
Guns are very expensive and hard to get. Why don't you hire men?
Men?
Gunmen. Nowadays, men are cheaper than guns.
...
It won't be hard to find men here. Everyone wears a gun.
Sure. Same as they wear pants. That's expected. But good men? That's something else again.
I did hear of a job below the border shooing flies away from a village, but I can't find out what it pays.
Twenty dollars.
A week?
Six weeks. Whole job.
Well, that's ridiculous. You heard of anything?
Yeah. Below the border shooing flies away from a village. Their village. (indicates Hilario and company)
Twenty dollars.
You can come in right now.
Nah, that wouldn't even pay for my bullets.
Ours is a poor village.
We understand. You can make much more as a grocery clerk. And it's good, steady work.
Yeah.
How many you got?
[Chris holds up one finger; Vin shakes his head and holds up two fingers.]
I guess right about now you kinda wish you'd given your crops to Calvera, huh?
Yes. And no. Both at the same time. Yes, when I think of what he might do. No, when I remember the feeling in my chest this morning as I saw him running away -- from us. That's a feeling worth dying for. Have you ever... felt something like that?
Not for a long, long time. I, uh, I envy you.
[A faction of villagers, led by Sotero, wants to make peace with Calvera; the Seven discuss their next move.]
You want to go?
Well, there comes a time to turn Mother's picture to the wall and get out. The village will be no worse off than it was before we came.
You forget one thing. We took a contract.
Not the kind any court would enforce.
That's just the kind you've got to keep.
That's a noble thought, but the way things are right now... I don't know.
The odds are too high!
Much too high.
Then we go?
No. We lower the odds.
Petra [A village girl takes an interest in the youngest hired gun.]
I'm sorry, but I thought... you know what I thought.
Yes, yes. I know.
Petra I wasn't afraid of you, it's my father. He said to "Stay away from those men. They are brutes. They are cruel."
He's right, you know that? He's right. Go back home now.
Petra He's wrong.
Well... go home anyway. Before he finds out you're here.
Petra He already knows. He says he'll punish me for being so shameless. But I don't care.
[Britt has just dropped an escaping bandit with a single long-range pistol shot.]
Oh... that was the greatest shot I've ever seen!
The worst. I was aiming at the horse.