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Film Quotes by Ward Bond

30 quotes
Tobacco Road
Year: 1941

Director:
John Ford
Lov Bensey: I want a young wife. I ain't gonna take no 23 year old woman for a wife, have everybody laughin' at me.
-- Ward Bond (as Lov Bensey) in Tobacco Road (1941)
Rio Bravo
Year: 1959

Director:
Howard Hawks
Pat Wheeler: If I ever saw a man holdin' a bull by the tail, you're it.
-- Ward Bond (as Pat Wheeler) in Rio Bravo (1959)
Dakota Incident
Year: 1956

Director:
Lewis R. Foster
Sen. Blakely: Not all savages paint their faces and wear eagle feathers!
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Year: 1938

Director:
Anatole Litvak
Tug: [to other gang members about Clitterhouse] Hey, that stuffed shirt's got something on the ball!
Joan of Arc
Year: 1948

Director:
Victor Fleming
Joan of Arc: [Joan pleads that the siege be continued] We need only to go forward, and the fort is ours!
La Hire: If she wants to attack - we attack.
-- Ward Bond (as La Hire) in Joan of Arc (1948)
Joan of Arc
Year: 1948

Director:
Victor Fleming
Joan of Arc: Don't swear, La Hire. But if you must, swear "by my staff".
La Hire: "By my staff!" What kind of an oath is that?
-- Ward Bond (as La Hire) in Joan of Arc (1948)
Swamp Water
Year: 1941

Director:
Jean Renoir*Irving Pichel
Sheriff Jeb McKane: [admiring a panther hide] Where'd you catch him, Ben?
Ben: Back in the swamp.
Marty McCord: How'd you get him?
Ben: We got him with a load of buckshot.
Tim Dorson: Oh, so you was with somebody.
Ben: I mean me and my dog.
Tim Dorson: I knowed you had a smart dog, Ben, but I never heard he could handle a shotgun.
-- Ward Bond (as Tim Dorson) in Swamp Water (1941)
Gentleman Jim
Year: 1942

Director:
Raoul Walsh
James J. Corbett aka Gentleman Jim: I've seen you around San Francisco a few times but from a long distance, of course.
John L. Sullivan: Well, seein' me from a long distance is a smart idea, young fella.
-- Ward Bond (as John L. Sullivan) in Gentleman Jim (1942)
Gentleman Jim
Year: 1942

Director:
Raoul Walsh
James J. Corbett aka Gentleman Jim: The first time I saw you fight I was just a bit of a kid. There wasn't a man alive who could have stood up to you then. And tonight, well, I was just mighty glad that you weren't the John L. Sullivan of ten years ago.
John L. Sullivan: Is that what you're thinkin' now?
James J. Corbett aka Gentleman Jim: That's what I was thinking before I got into the ring with you.
John L. Sullivan: That's a fine decent thing for you to say, Jim. I don't knopw how we might have come out, oh, say, eight or ten tears ago. I... maybe I was faster then, but if I was, tonight you're the fastest thing on two feet
-- Ward Bond (as John L. Sullivan) in Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Quiet Man
Year: 1952

Director:
John Ford
Mary Kate Danaher: Father, could I... tell you in the Irish?
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [distracted, fishing] Sea, sea.
Mary Kate Danaher: [very hesitantly] Níor lig mé m'fhear chéile isteach i mo leaba liom aréir. Chuir mé fuinneamh air a chodladh i - Ó, i mála codlata! Mála codlata!
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: Céad é sin? "Bag?"
Mary Kate Danaher: Sleeping bag, Father, with... with buttons! Más breá é, níor rith sé ar a shon. An peaca é?
Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [exasperated] Woman, Ireland may be a poor country, God help us. But here, a married man sleeps in a bed, not a bag!
-- Ward Bond (as Father Peter Lonergan) in The Quiet Man (1952)