Eric Keating: You know, things are going to happen in this country. Guns and shooting are going out. Law and order is on the march. You better look out or they'll run you over. The good people want to live together as good, peaceful citizens. And when they get together, there isn't a man fast enough on the draw or tough enough to stand against them. Not even Hannibal, Napolean or Billy the Kid.

- Ian Hunter (as Eric Keating) in Billy the Kid (1941)

Jim 'Holy' Sherwood: Don't you get fed up sometimes?
Billy: Fed up with what?
Jim 'Holy' Sherwood: Oh, rollin' around like a tumbleweed, being hunted, and never knowin' who's behind the next rock. I mean...
Billy: I know what you mean. I like it!

- Robert Taylor (as Billy Bonney) in Billy the Kid (1941)

Jim 'Holy' Sherwood: On the level, Billy. You ought to get off the bottle.
Billy: Bottle? I've never been drunk in my life.
Jim 'Holy' Sherwood: I don't mean liquor. I mean another kind of bottle - excitement... phony adventure. It's no good, Billy.

- Brian Donlevy (as Jim Sherwood) in Billy the Kid (1941)

Dan Hickey: Left-handed, eh?
Billy: I'm saving my right to shake hands with friends.

- Robert Taylor (as Billy Bonney) in Billy the Kid (1941)

Dan Hickey: Nobody quits my outfit and stays healthy!
Billy: Which one of you guys wants to start making me unhealthy?

- Robert Taylor (as Billy Bonney) in Billy the Kid (1941)

Billy: Don't he get a badge or something?
Eric Keating: Well, he didn't give me a badge for him. But... wait... there's a United States eagle on this dollar. That's all you need!

- Ian Hunter (as Eric Keating) in Billy the Kid (1941)

Billy: Yeah, I'll play along, Hickey. You just keep four aces in the deck.

- Robert Taylor (as Billy Bonney) in Billy the Kid (1941)

[later Edith Keating to Billy]
Edith: Jim's got roots here.
Billy: I got a horse and the west is wide.

- Robert Taylor (as Billy Bonney) in Billy the Kid (1941)