Other Titles • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966) • The Good, the Ugly, the Bad • Zwei glorreiche Halunken (1967) • El Bueno, el feo y el malo (1967) • The Magnificent Rogues
Quotes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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Man With No Name: You may run the risks, my friend, but I do the cutting. We cut down my percentage - uh, cigar? - liable to interfere with my aim. Tuco: But if you miss you had better miss very well. Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco.
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Tuco: [trying to read a note] "See you soon, id..." "id..." "ids..." Man With No Name: [taking the note] "Idiots". It's for you.
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Tuco: God is on our side because he hates the Yanks. Man With No Name: God is not on our side because he hates idiots also.
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[surveying some Civil War carnage] Man With No Name: I've never seen so many men wasted so bad.
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Man With No Name: Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. We're gonna have to earn it.
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Baker: Here, this is for you. You did a good job for me. [hands over a purse] Angel Eyes: Oh I almost forgot. He payed me a thousand. I think his idea was that I kill you. [they both laugh] Angel Eyes: But you know the pity is when I'm paid, I always follow my job through. You know that. Baker: Noo! Angel Eyes! [he is shot through a pillow]
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Tuco: I like big fat men like you. When they fall they make more noise.
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[as they set out across the desert] Tuco: If you save your breath I feel a man like you can manage it. And if you don't manage it, you'll die. Only slowly, very slowly old friend.
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Tuco: There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting.
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Man With No Name: You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
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[Tuco is in a bubble bath. The One Armed Man enters the room] One Armed Man: I've been looking for you for 8 months. Whenever I should have had a gun in my right hand, I thought of you. Now I find you in exactly the position that suits me. I had lots of time to learn to shoot with my left. [Tuco kills him with the gun he has hidden in the foam] Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
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[a dying man has information Tuco wants] Tuco: Don't die, I'll get you water. Stay there. Don't move, I'll get you water. Don't die until later.
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Tuco: You want to know who you are? Huh? Huh? You don't, I do, everyone does... you're the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.
Stevens: What are you being paid for killing me? Angel Eyes: Five hundred dollars... to get the name.
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[last lines] Tuco: [shouting] Hey, Blond! You know what you are? Just the greatest son-of-a-b-!
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Man With No Name: [counting Angel Eyes' men] One, two, three, four, five, and six. Six, the perfect number. Angel Eyes: I thought three was the perfect number. Man With No Name: I've got six more bullets in my gun.
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Tuco: I'll kill you. Man With No Name: If you do that... you'll always be poor... just like the greasy rat you are.
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Tuco: You became a priest because you were too much of a coward to do what I do.
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Man With No Name: The way I figure, there's really not too much future with a sawed-off runt like you.
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[to Tuco] Man With No Name: Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life.
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[Tuco is protesting his innocence] Tuco: I'm innocent! I'm just a simple farmer! Sheriff: [shows Tuco the wanted poster] Come here, you! Just a simple farmer, eh? Who is this? Tuco: Me? Sheriff: Yeah, you. Tuco: Who says so? You can't even read! [the Sheriff rolls up the poster] Tuco: Go ahead, roll it up! I'll give a good idea where to put it!
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[Tuco has captured Blondie and is planning to hang him] Tuco: Get on that stool and put the rope around your neck. I have a different system, my friend; I don't shoot the rope, I shoot the legs from under the stool. [Sound of distant rumbling] Tuco: Even when Judas hanged himself there was thunder. Man With No Name: That might be cannon fire. Tuco: Thunder or cannon fire, it's all the same to you. Adios, Blondie.
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Man With No Name: Take off your gun and put on your pants.
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Man With No Name: Every gun makes its own tune.
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Tuco: [trying to read a grave that is marked "Unknown"] Un-k... un-k... there's no name on it. Man With No Name: [showing him a stone] There's no name here, either. See, that's what Bill Carson told me. It was the grave marked "Unknown", right beside Arch Stanton.
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Tuco: One bastard goes in, another one comes out.
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Tuco: You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the Devil bite your ass.
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Jackson: The name on the grave is... water Tuco: In the cemetary, okay, in the grave okay! But it must have a name or a number on it! Talk, damn you!
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Maria: Is that you Bill? Bill! Angel Eyes: Go on talking about Bill Carson.
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[first lines] Stevens: You're... from Baker.... Tell Baker that I told him all that I know already. Tell him I want to live in peace, understand? That it's no use to go on tormenting me! I know nothing at all about that case of coins. Now that gold has disappeared, but if he'd listened, we could have avoided this altogether. I went to the Army court; there were no witnesses. They couldn't uncover any more. I can't tell Baker what happened to the money; go back and tell him that!
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Man With No Name: [appearing beside Tuco] Were you gonna die alone?
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Man With No Name: [has no choice but to let him die] Sorry, Shorty.
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Tuco: I'm very happy you are working with me! And we're together again. [pause] Tuco: I'll get dressed, I'll kill him and be right back. Man With No Name: Listen, I forgot to mention... He's not alone. There's five of 'em. Tuco: Five? Man With No Name: Yeah, five of 'em. Tuco: So, that's why you came to Tuco. [pause] Tuco: It doesn't matter, I'll kill them all.
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