Garden of Evil (1954)

Gary Cooper: Hooker

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Quotes 

• Hooker : I guess if the earth were made of gold, men would die for a handful of dirt.

• Hooker : She's tryin' to prove that one of us is a hero or a fool or both.

• Hooker : A cross isn't a bad thing to see...it can be beautiful. And everybody has one.

• [Fiske and Hooker are watching a lovely cantina singer singing in Spanish] 

  Fiske : I've found that pretty women speak the same language all over the world.

  Hooker : What about the ugly ones?

  Fiske : Never listened.

• Fiske : Say, Hooker, before you became an idiot lookin' for gold, what were you?

  Hooker : An idiot without it.

• Fiske : Takin' four men like us to a mountain of gold!

  Hooker : She took what there was.

  Fiske : Yeah, that's true. The barrel was empty. She scraped the bottom.

• Fiske : [Seeing Leah feeding sugar to her horse]  Look, you see that? Before this is over, you'll be just like that horse, eatin' right out of her hand.

  Hooker : Maybe it isn't the woman. Maybe it's the sugar.

• Hooker : Vicente is marking the trail.

  Fiske : Yeah.

  Hooker : You think he might wanna make this trip again?

  Fiske : He just might wanna get back from this one.

• Fiske : Believe nothing a woman says, but everything she sings.

  Hooker : Who told that?

  Fiske : Me.

• Fiske : [of Luke Daley]  He's crazy again. First it was the woman, now it's the gold. He means to have one or the other if it gets him killed.

  Hooker : It could.

• Fiske : Funny thing. I know everybody on board ship except you. I don't know anything about you. I know your name's Hooker and that's it.

  Hooker : [agreeing]  That's it.