Quotes from Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

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Henry Fonda
Frank: How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.

Henry Fonda
Frank: Keep your lovin' brother happy.

Charles Bronson
Frank: Morton once told me I could never be like him. Now I understand why. Wouldn't have bothered him, knowing you were around somewhere alive.
Harmonica: So, you found out you're not a businessman after all.
Frank: Just a man.
Harmonica: An ancient race. Other Mortons will be along, and they'll kill it off.
Frank: The future don't matter to us. Nothing matters now - not the land, not the money, not the woman. I came here to see you. 'Cause I know that now, you'll tell me what you're after.
Harmonica: ...Only at the point of dyin'.

Charles Bronson
Frank: Surprised to see me here?
Harmonica: I knew you'd come.

Charles Bronson
Frank: What do you want? Who are you?
Harmonica: Dave Jenkins.
Frank: Dave Jenkins is dead a long time ago.
Harmonica: Calder Benson.
Frank: What's your name? Benson's dead, too.
Harmonica: You should know, Frank, better than anyone. You killed them.

Charles Bronson
Frank: Who are you?
Harmonica: Jim Cooper, Chuck Youngblood.
Frank: More dead men.
Harmonica: They were all alive until they met you, Frank.

Henry Fonda
Frank: You paid five thousand dollars for something that belongs to me!
[puts down a bunch of dollar bills]
Frank: Five thousand...
[pulls out a silver dollar]
Frank: Plus one!
[puts the dollar on the table]
Frank: You got a right to make a profit too.

Henry Fonda
Frank: You've made a big mistake, Morton. When you're not on that train, you look like a turtle out of its shell. Just funny. Poor cripple talking big so nobody'll know how scared you are.

Henry Fonda
[Frank and his gang are standing in front of Timmy McBain, after killing the other family members]
Gang member: What are we going to do with this one, Frank?
Frank: Now that you've called me by name?

Henry Fonda
[Frank just knocked Morton off of his crutches]
Morton: Is that sufficient to make you feel stronger?
Frank: I could squash you like a wormy apple!
Morton: Sure. But you won't do it... because it's... not to your advantage...
Frank: Hmm. Who knows how far you'd have gone with two good legs, huh?

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