Tall Tale (1995) · 61 quotes
5th most-quoted character in Tall Tale (1995): in 11 of its 61 quotes
Most scenes with: Daniel Hackett (3), Pecos Bill (2)
Early to bed, early to rise. Makes a boy healthy, wealthy, and alive.
J.P. Stiles My pa was a farmer, and I know what it's like to work the land until your hands are blistered and raw. Hoping the weather won't turn bad, praying the crop will come in, hanging on when it don't. Oh, yeah. I know what it's like to be a farmer. And I got out, hallelujah!
J.P. Stiles Paradise Valley. My idea of Heaven. Iron, coal, oil, copper. Riches beyond the imagination, just waiting for a few rugged individuals with the vision, the strength and the means to make their dreams come true. Gentlemen, we stand on the edge of history.
J.P. Stiles Hackett's farm, right smack in the middle of everything. Without that deed, I won't have a bucket to spit in.
J.P. Stiles Son, your pa's a fool. He's stuck in the past and he wants you stuck there with him. But that ain't what you want, is it? You don't want to waste your life behind a plow. You want more than that. You hate that farm! It ain't nothing but a dried up, miserable piece of ground.
J.P. Stiles You don't stop progress, cowboy. That's the difference between me and you. I can adjust to the times. You can't.
J.P. Stiles You fool! There'll be others just like me, and more after them and after them. Long as there's a profit to be made, we'll never stop. We're comin'!
Harm one hair on that boy's head and you're a dead man, Stiles.
J.P. Stiles I got no quarrel with you, cowboy, or your friends.
You sure got a peculiar way of showing it.
J.P. Stiles The deed.
You can't have the -
If that's your way of thinking, I reckon we don't.
J.P. Stiles You don't stop progress, cowboy. That's the difference between me and you. I can adjust to the times. You can't.
Don't listen to him, Daniel.
We can beat this thing yet.
You've just got to believe, boy.
Where do you get off telling me what to do? Where do any of you get off telling people how to live?!
J.P. Stiles That's it, boy. That's the spirit!
Don't lose the dream, Daniel.
You don't know what you can do until you try.
Don't give up on yourself, kid.
You all are nothing! Just a bunch of tall tales that my pa made up! [turns to Pecos Bill] And you are nothing but hot air.
J.P. Stiles I ain't got all day, boy. Time is money.
Don't do it, Daniel.
J.P. Stiles Well, I see your pa sent a boy to do a man's job.
I come of my own accord!
J.P. Stiles The time for deeds is over, kid. Get off the track.
I'm telling you... to get out of Paradise Valley!
J.P. Stiles A little speck of dust like you? You really think you can stop all this? [showcasing the train and tunnel]
Well, maybe not, but I sure am going to give it my best shot!
J.P. Stiles All right. Have it your way, then. [to the engineers] Run him over. [pause] I said, run him over!
J.P. Stiles Mister, I got no fight with you.
Naw, defenseless youngins' and farmers are more your style.
J.P. Stiles Mister, you just killed yourself.
J.P. Stiles Boy, be reasonable! You know we're gonna win in the end! [Daniel moves to strike the pillar] Stop! Just stop. All right, all right. I admit it. You got me over a barrel. My back's to the wall. Name your price.
I ain't interested!
J.P. Stiles You fool! There'll be others just like me, and more after them and after them. Long as there's a profit to be made, we'll never stop. We're comin'!
Not through our land!
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The Wise Man/The General/The Bus Driver
Bill Burton
Jack Crawford
Axe
Alan Shepard
Montgomery Wick
