The Magnificent Seven Quotes

The Magnificent Seven is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . The Magnificent Seven ended in 1970.

It features John Sturges as producer, Elmer Bernstein in charge of musical score, and Charles Lang as head of cinematography.

The Magnificent Seven is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Eli Wallach as Calvera, Yul Brynner as Chris, Steve McQueen as Vin, Charles Bronson as O'Reilly, Yul Brynner as Chris Adams, Horst Buchholz as Chico, James Coburn as Britt, Robert Vaughn as Lee, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos as Hilario, Whit Bissell as Chamlee, Val Avery as Henry, Robert J. Wilke as Wallace, Bing Russell as Robert, Rico Alaniz as Sotero, Natividad Vacío as Miguel, and Brad Dexter as Harry Luck.

The Magnificent Seven Quotes

Charles Bronson as O'Reilly

• (Charles Bronson) "Miguel, didn't I tell you to squeeze? Hm? Just like when you're milking a goat, Miguel."
• (Natividad Vacío) "It's that I get excited."
• (Charles Bronson) "Well don't get excited. Now this time squeeze. Slowly, but squeeze. All right now, squeeze."
• (Charles Bronson) "Squeeze. I'll tell you what. Don't shoot the gun. Take the gun like this, and you use it like a club, all right?"

• (Unnamed) "We're ashamed to live here. Our fathers are cowards."
• (Charles Bronson) "Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there's nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery. That's why I never even started anything like that -- that's why I never will."

Steve McQueen as Vin

• (Steve McQueen) "We heard you got that Salinas thing cleaned up in five weeks."
• (Charles Bronson) "They paid me $800 for that one."
• (Steve McQueen) "And Johnson County in four weeks."
• (Charles Bronson) "They paid me $500 for that one."
• (Steve McQueen) "You cost a lot."
• (Charles Bronson) "Yeah, I cost a lot."
• (Yul Brynner) "The pay is $20."
• (Charles Bronson) "$20? Right now, that's a lot."

• (Old Man) "You worry about yourself. Are you ready for him?"
• (Old Man) "What if he comes now, huh?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Reminds me of that fellow back home that fell off a ten story building."
• (Yul Brynner) "What about him?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Well, as he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good." Tch -- So far, so good."

• (Steve McQueen) "All I'm saying is that sometimes you bend with the breeze, or you break."

• (Steve McQueen) "You elected?"
• (Yul Brynner) "Na. I got nominated real good."

• (Steve McQueen) "Riding out there in all that dust and heat -- what a chucklehead."
• (Yul Brynner) "Yep. Not smart like us."
• (Steve McQueen) "Yep."

• (Steve McQueen) "Rojas is makin' room for you in his home."
• (Old Man) "Rojas? His conversation would bore me to death."
• (Steve McQueen) "Yeah, well, maybe somebody else, huh?"
• (Old Man) "hey are all farmers. Farmers talk of nothing but fertiliser and women. I've never shared their enthusiasm for fertiliser. As for women, I became indifferent when I was 83. I am staying here."

• (Steve McQueen) "Twenty dollars? You must be living in style."
• (Robert Vaughn) "Yes -- I have the most stylish corner of the filthy storeroom out back. That and one plate of beans. Ten dollars a day."

• (Steve McQueen) "You know the first time I took a job as a hired gun, fellow told me, "Vin, you can't afford to care." There's your problem."
• (Yul Brynner) "One thing I don't need is somebody telling me my problem."
• (Steve McQueen) "Like I said before, that's your problem. You got involved in this village and the people in it."
• (Yul Brynner) "Do you ever get tired of hearing yourself talk?"
• (Steve McQueen) "The reason I understand your problem so well is that I walked in the same trap myself. Yeah. First day we got here, I started thinking: Maybe I could put my gun away, settle down, get a little land, raise some cattle. Things that these people know about me be to my credit; wouldn't work against me. I just didn't want you to think you were the only sucker in town."

• (Steve McQueen) "We deal in lead, friend."

• (Old Man) "You could a-stay, you know. They wouldn't be sorry to have you a-stay."
• (Steve McQueen) "They won't be sorry to see us go, either."
• (Old Man) "Yes. The fighting is over. Your work is done. For them, each season has its tasks. If there were a season for gratitude, they'd show it more."
• (Steve McQueen) "We didn't get any more than we expected, old man."
• (Old Man) "Only the farmers have won. They remain forever. They are like the land itself. You helped rid them of Calvera, the way a strong wind helps rid them of locusts. You're like the wind; blowing over the land and -- passing on. Vaya con dios."
• (Yul Brynner) "Adios."

• (Steve McQueen) "You know; I've been in some towns where the girls weren't all that pretty. In fact I've been in some towns where they're downright ugly. But it's the first time I've been in a town where there are no girls at all, 'cept little ones. You know if we're not careful we could have quite a social life here."

Val Avery as Henry

• (Val Avery) "Well, I'll be damned. I never knew you had to be anything but a corpse to get into Boot Hill. How long's this been going?"
• (Whit Bissell) "Since the town got civilized."

Eli Wallach as Calvera

• (Eli Wallach) "New wall."
• (Yul Brynner) "There are lots of new walls, all around."
• (Eli Wallach) "They won't keep me out."
• (Yul Brynner) "They were built to keep you in."

• (Eli Wallach) "You'll do much better on the other side of the border. There you can steal cattle, hold up trains -- all you have to face is sheriff, marshall. Once I rob a bank in Texas; your government get after me with a whole army -- whole army. One little bank. Is clear the meaning: in Texas, only Texans can rob banks. Ha ha."
• (Eli Wallach) "Adios."

• (Eli Wallach) "What I don't understand is why a man like you took the job in the first place, hmm? Why, huh?"
• (Yul Brynner) "I wonder myself."
• (Eli Wallach) "No, come on, come on, tell me why."
• (Steve McQueen) "It's like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, "Why?""
• (Eli Wallach) "And?"
• (Steve McQueen) "He said, "It seemed to be a good idea at the time.""

• (Eli Wallach) "Generosity -- that was my first mistake. I leave these people a little bit extra, and then they hire these men to make trouble. It shows you, sooner or later, you must answer for every good deed."

• (Eli Wallach) "Now, to business. I could kill you all. You agree?"
• (Eli Wallach) "Well, you don't disagree."

• (Eli Wallach) "I should have guessed. When my men didn't come back I should have guessed. How many of you did they hire?"
• (Yul Brynner) "Enough."

• (Eli Wallach) "What if you had to carry my load? The need to provide food, like a father, to fill the mouths of his hungry men?"

• (Eli Wallach) "We have a saying here: a thief who steals from a thief is pardoned for one hundred years."

• (Eli Wallach) "Last month we were in San Juan. Rich town. Sit down. Rich town, much blessed by God. Big church. Not like here; little church, priest comes twice a year. BIG one. You'd think we'd find gold candlesticks. Poor box filled to overflowing. Do you know what we found? Brass candlesticks. Almost nothing in the poor box."
• (Unnamed) "But we took it anyway."
• (Eli Wallach) "I KNOW we took it anyway. I'm trying to show him how little religion some people now have."

• (Eli Wallach) "Somehow I don't think you've solved my problem."
• (Yul Brynner) "Solving your problems isn't our line."

• (Eli Wallach) "If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep."

• (Eli Wallach) "You came back; for a place like this. Why? A man like you. Why?"

Yul Brynner as Chris

• (Yul Brynner) "Go ahead, Lee. You don't owe anything to anybody."
• (Robert Vaughn) "Except to myself."

• (Yul Brynner) "We'll get there."
• (Steve McQueen) "It's not getting up there that bothers me. It's staying up there that I mind."

• (Yul Brynner) "Is that what you want? Answer me. Who's for going on and who's for giving up? I want to know now."

• (Yul Brynner) "Oh, hell. If that's all that's holding things up, I'll drive the rig."

• (Yul Brynner) "Now we are seven."

• (Yul Brynner) "You forget one thing. We took a contract."
• (Steve McQueen) "It's sure not the kind any court would enforce."
• (Yul Brynner) "That's just the kind you've got to keep."

• (Yul Brynner) "Bring them in."
• (Horst Buchholz) "What for? Let Calvera find them, he'll take good care of them."

• (Yul Brynner) "Nah, leave him alone. It's a free country."
• (Charles Bronson) "And it's his."

• (Yul Brynner) "The old man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose."

• (Yul Brynner) "If he rides in with no idea of the reception we can prepare for him, I promise you we'll all teach him something about the price of corn."

• (Yul Brynner) "He's a good gun, and we aren't heading for a church social."

• (Yul Brynner) "Morning. I'm a friend of Harry Luck's. He tells me you're broke."
• (Charles Bronson) "Nah. I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire."

• (Yul Brynner) "I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything."

Robert Vaughn as Lee

• (Robert Vaughn) "Yes. The final supreme idiocy. Coming here to hide. The deserter hiding out in the middle of a battlefield."

• (Robert Vaughn) "One. There was a time when I'd have gotten all three."

• (Robert Vaughn) "Remember me?"
• (Yul Brynner) "Yup."
• (Robert Vaughn) "You need men for a job in Mexico? How long?"
• (Yul Brynner) "Four, maybe six weeks."
• (Robert Vaughn) "That ought to do it. How much does the job pay?"
• (Yul Brynner) "I thought you were looking for the Johnson brothers, Lee."
• (Robert Vaughn) "I found them. Now, how much does the job pay?"
• (Yul Brynner) "Twenty dollars."
• (Robert Vaughn) "I'll have the money before I leave. It should just take care of my last two days' rent."

Whit Bissell as Chamlee

• (Whit Bissell) "There's an element in town that objects."
• (Val Avery) "Objects? Objects to what?"
• (Whit Bissell) "They say he isn't fit to be buried there."
• (Bing Russell) "What? In Boot Hill?"
• (Val Avery) "Why, there's nothing up there but murderous cutthroats and derelict old barflies, and if they ever felt exclusive brother, they're past it now."

• (Whit Bissell) "I'm sorry, friend, but there'll be no funeral."
• (Val Avery) "What?"
• (Whit Bissell) "Oh, the grave is dug and the defunct there is as ready as the embalmers ought to make him. But there'll be no funeral."
• (Val Avery) "What's the matter? Didn't I pay enough?"
• (Whit Bissell) "It's not a question of money. For twenty dollars, I'd plant anybody with a hoop and a holler. But the funeral is off."
• (Val Avery) "Now how do you like that. I want him buried, you want him buried and if he could sit up and talk, he'd second the motion. Now that's as unanimous as you can get."

• (Whit Bissell) "I don't like it, no sir. I've always treated every man the same: just as another, future customer."
• (Val Avery) "Well in that case, get that hearse rolling."
• (Whit Bissell) "I can't, my driver's quit."
• (Bing Russell) "He's prejudiced too, huh?"
• (Whit Bissell) "Well, when it comes to a chance of getting his head blown off, he's downright bigoted."

Horst Buchholz as Chico

• (Horst Buchholz) "And who made us the way we are? Men with guns. Men like Calvera -- and you -- and now me."

• (Horst Buchholz) "Ah, that was the greatest shot I've ever seen."
• (James Coburn) "The worst. I was aiming at the horse."

• (Horst Buchholz) "But who made us the way we are, huh? Men with guns. Men like Calvera, and men like you -- and now me."

• (Horst Buchholz) "Villages like this they make up a song about every big thing that happens. Sing them for years."
• (Yul Brynner) "You think it's worth it?"
• (Horst Buchholz) "Don't you?"
• (Yul Brynner) "It's only a matter of knowing how to shoot a gun. Nothing big about that."
• (Horst Buchholz) "Hey. How can you talk like this? Your gun has got you everything you have. Isn't that true? Hmm? Well, isn't that true?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Yeah, sure. Everything. After awhile you can call bartenders and faro dealers by their first name; maybe two hundred of 'em. Rented rooms you live in; five hundred. Meals you eat in hash houses; a thousand. Home; none. Wife; none. Kids -- none. Prospects; zero. Suppose I left anything out?"
• (Yul Brynner) "Yeah. Places you're tied down to; none. People with a hold on you; none. Men you step aside for; none."
• (Robert Vaughn) "Insults swallowed; none. Enemies; none."
• (Yul Brynner) "No enemies?"
• (Robert Vaughn) "Alive."
• (Horst Buchholz) "Well. This is the kind of arithmetic I like."
• (Yul Brynner) "Yeah. So did I at your age."

• (Horst Buchholz) "Thank you, thank you -- you -- chickens."

Jorge Martínez de Hoyos as Hilario

• (Jorge Martínez de Hoyos) "The feeling I felt in my chest this morning, when I saw Calvera run away from us, that's a feeling worth dying for. Have you ever felt something like that?"
• (Steve McQueen) "Not for a long, long time. I envy you."

• (Jorge Martínez de Hoyos) "Even if we had the guns, we know how to plant and grow, we don't know how to kill."
• (Old Man) "Then learn, or die."

• (Jorge Martínez de Hoyos) "We'll fight with guns if we have them. If we don't, with machetes, axes, clubs, anything."

• (Jorge Martínez de Hoyos) "Very young and very proud."
• (Yul Brynner) "Well, the graveyards are full of boys who were very young and very proud."

Robert J. Wilke as Wallace

• (Robert J. Wilke) "You tell 'em. I won, didn't I?"
• (James Coburn) "You lost."

Brad Dexter as Harry Luck

• (Brad Dexter) "You ol' Cajun; you don't talk so good, but you always know what's goin' on."

• (Brad Dexter) "Well, I'll be damned."
• (Yul Brynner) "Maybe you won't be."

James Coburn as Britt

• (James Coburn) "I -- changed my mind."

• (James Coburn) "Nobody throws me my own guns and says run. Nobody."

Rico Alaniz as Sotero

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