Lonely Are the Brave Quotes

Lonely Are the Brave is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Lonely Are the Brave stopped airing in 1970.

It features Edward Lewis (producer) as producer, Jerry Goldsmith in charge of musical score, and Philip H. Lathrop as head of cinematography.

Lonely Are the Brave is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Lonely Are the Brave is 107 minutes long. Lonely Are the Brave is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Kirk Douglas as Jack Burns, Walter Matthau as Sheriff Morey Johnson, Gena Rowlands as Jerry Bondi, Michael Kane as Paul Bondi, Karl Swenson as Rev. Hoskins, Lalo Ríos as Prisoner, and William Schallert as Harry.

Lonely Are the Brave Quotes

Kirk Douglas as Jack Burns

• (Unnamed) "Maybe you'd be better off if they caught you."
• (Kirk Douglas) "Maybe, but I'd like to put it off for as long as possible."

• (Kirk Douglas) "Be careful, Jack. Don't make any trouble."
• (Kirk Douglas) "Trouble's what I came here to fix up."

• (Kirk Douglas) "Take it easy. Temper like that and one of these days you'll find yourself riding through town with your belly to the sun, your best suit on and no place to go but hell."

• (Kirk Douglas) "Yeah, but basically, you're still an Easterner."
• (Gena Rowlands) "What are you talking about, Jack?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "Oh, it's easy to understand. A westerner likes open country. That means he's got to hate fences. And the more fences there are, the more he hates them."
• (Gena Rowlands) "I've never heard such nonsense in my life."
• (Kirk Douglas) "It's true though. Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespassing, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead. Do you know what I mean?"

• (Kirk Douglas) "You know a fellow can get hurt falling backwards off a chair; are you positive it's me you want amigo?"

• (Unnamed) "You mean to say you got no identification at all?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "That's right."
• (Unnamed) "No draft card, no social security, no discharge? No insurance, no driver's license, no nothing?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "No nothing."
• (Unnamed) "Look, cowboy, you can't go around with no identication. It's against the law. How are people going to know who you are?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "I don't need a card to figure out who I am. I already know."

• (Kirk Douglas) "I didn't want a house. I didn't want all those pots and pans. I didn't want anything but you. It's God's own blessing I didn't get you."
• (Unnamed) "Why?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "'Cause I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts. Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him. A guy like that, he'd kill a woman like you. Because he couldn't love you, not the way you are loved."

• (Kirk Douglas) "Time we took off, too."

• (Kirk Douglas) "Picked up the paper, says Paul was headed for two years in penitentiary, started riding the same day."

• (Kirk Douglas) "You can always arrange to see a fellow."

• (Kirk Douglas) "If you're not satisfied with the arm you've got, why don't you chop it off."

• (Kirk Douglas) "I couldn't serve a year in this place, my guts get all tied up just by thinking about it."

• (Kirk Douglas) "Are you sure you've got the right fellow, we haven't even been introduced."

• (Unnamed) "Is there anything else you want?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "A bath. I'm beginning to smell like a wild animal hasn't even been rained on for about five years."

Gena Rowlands as Jerry Bondi

• (Gena Rowlands) "Jack I'm gonna tell you something. The world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist, maybe it never did. Out there is a real world and it's got real border and real fences, real laws and real trouble. And either you go by the rules or you lose."

• (Gena Rowlands) "Jack, I'm going to tell you something. The world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist. Maybe it never did -- out there in the real world. And it's got real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. And you either go by the rules or you lose. You lose everything."
• (Kirk Douglas) "You can always keep something."

• (Gena Rowlands) "I was expecting you, Jack. Isn't that odd? I heard a horse and I knew it was your horse."

• (Gena Rowlands) "Jack, what are you going to do?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "Well, about every six months, I figure I owe myself a good drunk. It rinses your insides out, sweetens you breath and tones up your skin."

Walter Matthau as Sheriff Morey Johnson

• (Walter Matthau) "Red light's flashing, Harry. You got any time for the machine?"
• (William Schallert) "Machine? Right."
• (William Schallert) "Roger, Highway Patrol. CS-1 out."
• (Walter Matthau) "What was that signal, Harry?"
• (William Schallert) "Signal? Oh, just the State Highway Patrol. Just a routine check."
• (Walter Matthau) "Locate McNeil wherever he is and send him out for chewing gum."
• (William Schallert) "McNeil? Right."
• (Walter Matthau) "When I tell you to watch that machine of yours, you say, "Machine? Right." When I give you a message for McNeil, you say, "McNeil? Right." There's something about the way you make a question of it and then say "right" that gets on my nerves."
• (William Schallert) "Nerves?"
• (Walter Matthau) "Right."

• (Walter Matthau) "You'd think we're chasing a ghost -- an invisible horse and an invisible cowboy. Harry, throw me that canteen. I haven't got enough spit left to wet a stick of gum."

Michael Kane as Paul Bondi

• (Michael Kane) "Are you sure you didn't get kicked in the head?"
• (Kirk Douglas) "What do you mean?"
• (Michael Kane) "You act like a man who thinks he's going to break out of jail."

Karl Swenson as Rev. Hoskins

• (Karl Swenson) "Ah, the temptations of the flesh. I fought 'em my whole life through."
• (Lalo Ríos) "Then how come you're in here"
• (Lalo Ríos) ", Reverend?"
• (Karl Swenson) "Well, I said I fought 'em, I didn't say I fought 'em off. Sometimes I lost. But believe me, it takes a lot more to tempt a preacher than it does you stumblebums in here. When I lost, I lost big."
• (Lalo Ríos) "Are you a real preacher, Reverend?"
• (Karl Swenson) "Well now, let's look at it this way. I always had the urge to preach. And if you got the urge, you're halfway home."
• (Lalo Ríos) "What kept you from getting all the way?"
• (Karl Swenson) "My temptation was women."

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