Rubriz: So what do they call you?
Choya: Choya.
Rubriz: Choya. It is a name I have heard. Not too often. Not with the biggest reputation. Small things with a gun.
Choya: Big enough that the Rangers want to do a little hanging.
Rubriz: Me they wish to hang a thousand times.

- Joseph Calleia (as Rubriz) in Branded (1950)

Rubriz: You young ones have not heard enough bullets to know the song of them. When I rode with Juarez, I heard them by the hundreds. Enough bullets to know their music.

- Joseph Calleia (as Rubriz) in Branded (1950)

T. Jefferson Leffingwell: We don't need Tattoo. No sense dragging a lot of dead weight... especially when it's all drunken mouth.

- Robert Keith (as T. Jefferson Leffingwell) in Branded (1950)

Ruth Lavery: What's your name?
Choya: Choya.
Ruth Lavery: That's Spanish for cactus. Why do they call you that?
Choya: Ever tried to pick one?

- Alan Ladd (as Choya) in Branded (1950)

Choya: All my life, I've been a snake. I've lived by my wits. I've gotten what I've wanted anyway I wanted it. Just lately I've been wondering just for once if I couldn't do something straight... do something a little decent.

- Alan Ladd (as Choya) in Branded (1950)

Choya: Posses I can dodge. Young ladies spitting insults I can't handle.

- Alan Ladd (as Choya) in Branded (1950)

[indicating Choya's guns]
Ruth Lavery: You don't need to wear them around here.
Choya: I wouldn't feel dressed without them.

- Alan Ladd (as Choya) in Branded (1950)

Dad Travis: You got any friends?
Choya: My guns.
Dad Travis: Kinfolk?
Choya: My horse.

- Alan Ladd (as Choya) in Branded (1950)