A character in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Cheyenne quotes from Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Jason Robards
A line from Cheyenne

Do you know anything about a guy going around playing the harmonica? He's someone you'd remember. Instead of talking, he plays. And when he better play, he talks.

More lines from Cheyenne

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Cheyenne

You don't understand, Jill. People like that have something inside... something to do with death.

Cheyenne

They wanna hang me. The big, black crows. Idiots. What the hell? I'll kill anything. Never a kid. Be like killin' a priest. Catholic priest, that is.

Cheyenne

Hey, Harmonica - when they do you in, pray it's somebody who knows where to shoot... Go away... go away... go away, I don't want you to see me die.

Scenes with Cheyenne

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Cheyenne

Harmonica, a town built around a railroad. [laughs] You could make a fortune. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hey, more than that. Thousands of thousands.

Harmonica

They call them "millions."

Cheyenne

"Millions." Hmm.

Harmonica

I saw three of these dusters a short time ago. They were waiting for a train. Inside the dusters there were three men.

Cheyenne

So?

Harmonica

Inside the men there were three bullets.

Cheyenne

That's a crazy story, Harmonica, for two reasons. One, nobody around these part's got the guts to wear those dusters except Cheyenne's men. Two, Cheyenne's men don't get killed. That surprise you?

Harmonica

Yeah. Well, you know music and you can count. All the way up to two.

Cheyenne
[Turns the cylinder of his revolver]

All the way up to six if I have to. [gestures to Harmonica's wound] And maybe faster than you.

Jill

If you want to, you can lay me over the table and amuse yourself. And even call in your men. Well. No woman ever died from that. When you're finished, all I'll need will be a tub of boiling water, and I'll be exactly what I was before - with just another filthy memory.

Cheyenne
[sighs]

You make good coffee, at least?

Jill

What's he waiting for out there? What's he doing?

Cheyenne

He's whittlin' on a piece of wood. I've got a feeling when he stops whittlin'... Somethin's gonna happen.

Cheyenne

Judas was satisfied with 4,970 dollars less.

Harmonica

There weren't no dollars in them days.

Cheyenne

But sons-of-bitches? Yeah.

Jill

Mrs. McBain goes back to civilization. Minus a husband and plus a great future.

Cheyenne

You deserve better.

Jill

The last man who told me that is buried out there.

Cheyenne

You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was for an hour or for a month... he must have been a happy man.

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