Big Jake (1971)

Patrick Wayne: James McCandles

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Quotes 

• Jake : Throw a blanket over 'im (a horse).

  James McCandles : I can ride without a blanket.

  Jake : I'm not worrying about your butt! It's his back!

• James McCandles : I am moved by your faith in someone you haven't seen since he was sixteen years old, Daddy!

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Daddy?

  James McCandles : Daddy.

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Well, son; since you don't have any respect for your elders, it's time somebody taught you some respect for your betters!

  [grabs James and throws him into a mud puddle] 

  James McCandles : Why, if you weren't my father...

  Jacob 'Big Jake' McCandles : Go ahead. I give you leave.

  [James winds up to throw a punch, but before he swings, Jake hits him and knocks him back into the puddle] 

• James McCandles : Do this, do that! I'm gonna do whatever I want!

  Sam Sharpnose : You do what he tells you, every time he tells you and we might come through this alive! Might even save the boy. Otherwise you're gonna get yourself killed. Don't matter to me, but you'll probably get him killed too, and that does.

• O'Brian : They tell me you killed two good men in a fair fight tonight. That true?

  James McCandles : No, three; countin' you.

  O'Brian : Prove it.

• Jake : What do you do when cockroaches get in the woodwork, Michael?

  James McCandles : Smoke 'em out?

  Jake : That's right.

  Michael McCandles : Why not wait for them to make the first move?

  Jake : Because waiting is good for them and bad for us. You get impatient, nervy, careless and maybe dead.