Johnny Guitar (1954)

Sterling Hayden: Johnny 'Guitar' Logan

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• Johnny : How many men have you forgotten?

  Vienna : As many women as you've remembered.

  Johnny : Don't go away.

  Vienna : I haven't moved.

  Johnny : Tell me something nice.

  Vienna : Sure, what do you want to hear?

  Johnny : Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.

  Vienna : [without feeling]  All those years I've waited.

  Johnny : Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.

  Vienna : [without feeling]  I woulda died if you hadn't come back.

  Johnny : Tell me you still love me like I love you.

  Vienna : [without feeling]  I still love you like you love me.

  Johnny : [bitterly]  Thanks. Thanks a lot.

• Vienna : You haven't changed at all, Johnny.

  Johnny : What made you think I had?

  Vienna : In five years, a person should learn something.

  Johnny : Five years ago, I met you in a saloon; now I find you in one. I don't see much change.

  Vienna : Except I *own* this one.

• Johnny : There's nothin' like a good smoke and a cuppa' coffee. You know, some men got the craving for gold and silver. Others need lotsa' land, with herds of cattle. And then there's those that got the weakness for whiskey, and for women. When you boil it all down, what does a man really need? Just a smoke and a cup of coffee.

  Marshal Williams : And who are you?

  Johnny : The name, sir, is Johnny Guitar.

  Dancin' Kid : [Scornfully]  That's no name!

  Johnny : [Cooly]  Anybody care to change it?

  Vienna : I hired you to play the guitar, not insult my customers.

  Johnny : Well, if these are your customers, I'm not so sure I'll take this job.

  Vienna : That's pretty strong talk for a man who doesn't wear a gun.

• Dancin' Kid : I like you, Guitar Man. How'd you like to work for me?

  Johnny : I wouldn't.

  Dancin' Kid : Now all of a sudden I don't like you.

  Johnny : Now that makes me real sad.

• Dancin' Kid : How'd Turkey take it? Hard?

  Johnny : You ever know anyone to take a hangin' easy?

• Johnny : [Mining crews are blasting up in the nearby hills, making the roads impassable]  They're closing the pass. If you're thinking of running, it's a little late. I've got a hunch the posse will be droppin' in on ya' before night. Same people who paid you a visit yesterday, only they won't be the same. A posse isn't people. I've ridden with 'em, and I've ridden against 'em. A posse is an animal that moves like one and thinks like one.

  Vienna : [Dismissively]  They're men with itchy fingers and a coil of rope around their saddle horns, lookin' for somebody to hang. And after riding a few hours they don't care much WHO they hang. You haven't told me a thing I don't know.

• Johnny : What's eating the fancy man?

  Vienna : I don't know. What's your trouble, Kid?

  Dancin' Kid : I'm in no trouble, he is. Fooling with a strange woman can bring a man a lot of grief.

  Johnny : [to Vienna]  Are you a strange woman?

  Vienna : Only to strangers.

• Dancin' Kid : I didn't get your name stranger.

  Johnny : Guitar. Johnny Guitar.

  Dancin' Kid : You call that a name?

  Johnny : Care to try and change it?

• Dancin' Kid : [Seeing, for the first time, Johnny Guitar wearing a gun, and not realizing who he really is]  Well, look at Mr. Guitar! All dressed up and looking mighty dangerous.

  Johnny : What did you want to tell me?

  Dancin' Kid : [Mockingly, and completely unaware that Johnny Guitar is actually an extremely capable gunfighter]  Oh, I'm too scared, now that you've gotta' gun.

  Vienna : You better lay off him, Kid.

  Dancin' Kid : I wouldn't hurt him.

  Vienna : I wasn't thinking of *you* hurting *him.*

  Dancin' Kid : Oh, you mean he might shoot himself in the leg, trying to draw?

  [chuckles rudely] 

  Vienna : No... but if I were you, I wouldn't fool around with Johnny Logan.

  Dancin' Kid : [Stunned]  Are you... Johnny Logan?

  Johnny : That's the name, friend.

• Dancin' Kid : Please to meet you Mr. Logan

  Johnny : I never shake hands with a left-handed draw

  Dancin' Kid : Smart thought

  Johnny : That's how I keep alive

• Johnny : Can you dance?

  Dancin' Kid : Can you play?

  [Johnny plays, the Kid dances] 

• Vienna : Play something for me, Mr. Guitar.

  Johnny : Anything special.

  Vienna : Just put a lot of *love* in it.

• Johnny : Five years is a long time. There must have been quite a few men in between.

  Vienna : Enough.

• Johnny : This is all Emma needs. Why does she hate you so?

  Vienna : She's in love with the Kid.

  Johnny : Last night, she was trying awful hard to get him hung.

  Vienna : He makes her feel like a woman and that frightens her.

• Johnny : I didn't come here looking for trouble, Mr Lonergan.

  Bart : Bart's the name. All my friends call me Bart.

  Johnny : Thank you, Mr Lonergan.

• Johnny : You wouldn't shoot a man in the back?

  Dancin' Kid : In front of Vienna? Why, she'd never forgive such bad manners.

  Vienna : You'd better stick to your dancing, Kid. You'll live longer.

• Johnny : [improvising a song]  Her name was Emma Smalls, Was Emma Smalls.

• Vienna : Stop feeling so sorry for yourself! You think you had it rough? I didn't find this place. I had to build it. How do you think I was able to do that?

  Johnny : I don't want to know.

  Vienna : But I want you to know. For every board, plank and beam in this place...

  Johnny : I heard enough!

  Vienna : No, you're going to listen.

  Johnny : I told you I don't want to know any more!

  Vienna : You can't shut me up, Johnny. Not any more.

  [Tearfully] 

  Vienna : Once I would have crawled at your feet to be near you. I searched for you in every man I met.

  Johnny : Look, Vienna. You just said you had a bad dream. We both had, but it's all over.

  Vienna : No, not for me.

  Johnny : It's just like it was five years ago. Nothing's happened in between.

  Vienna : Oh, I wish...

  Johnny : Not a thing. You've got nothing to tell me because it's not real. Only you and me, that's real.

• Vienna : Is that a proposal?

  Johnny : A man's gotta stop somewhere. This seems as good a spot as any.

  Vienna : That's just about the most touching speech a woman ever listened to.

• John McIvers : You, come here!

  Johnny : I got a name, mister.

  John McIvers : I said come here.

  Johnny : Well, say it nicer.

• John McIvers : How come you don't go armed?

  Johnny : Because I'm not the fastest draw west of the Pecos.

• Johnny : You hired me to do a job.

  Vienna : Is that all you came here for -- to do a job?

• Vienna : Why did you come back for me?

  Johnny : First chance I ever had to be a hero. I couldn't pass it up.

• Vienna : Where are your guns?

  Johnny : In my saddlebag.

  Vienna : Suppose you leave them there. I'll tell you when to use them.

  Johnny : You're the boss.

• Johnny : Why me?

  Vienna : Maybe I'll need a gunfighter.