“I'm going! And it's not because you say I can't, and it's not because...” – Mattie Ross, True Grit ... Movie Quotes Database

I'm going! And it's not because you say I can't, and it's not because you say I can. I paid good cash money to be here, and I'm on my own business! Now, we'll have no more talk about it.

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Mattie Ross My name is Mattie Ross, of Near Dardanelle in Yell County. My family owns property, and I don't know why I'm being treated like this! Mattie Ross Rooster Cogburn is no good friend of mine! He led us straight into your hands, and now he has left me with a gang of cut-throats! Is that what they call "grit" in Fort Smith? We call it something else in Yell County. Mattie Ross Papa's marker is not what was ordered. I will make that wool-hatted fool of a stone man change it.