Little Big Man (1970) quotes
Director
Arthur Penn.
Cast
Dustin Hoffman.
Faye Dunaway.
Chief Dan George.
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings.
– Old Lodge Skins
Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now?
– Jack Crabb
Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them… like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he’s bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference.
– Old Lodge Skins
Today is a good day to die.
– Old Lodge Skins
Grandfather, I have a white wife.
– Jack Crabb
You do? That’s interesting. Does she cook and does she work hard.
– Old Lodge Skins
Yes, Grandfather.
– Jack Crabb
That surprises me. Does she show pleasant enthusiasm when you mount her?
– Old Lodge Skins
Well sure, Grandfather.
– Jack Crabb
I have a wife. And four horses.
– Younger Bear
I have a horse… and four wives.
– Jack Crabb
That surprises me even more. I tried one of them once, but she didn’t show any enthusiasm at all.
– Old Lodge Skins
Well sure, Grandfather.
– Jack Crabb
That surprises me even more. I tried one of them once, but she didn’t show any enthusiasm at all.
– Old Lodge Skins
Let’s go back to the teepee and eat, my son. My new snake wife cooks dog very well.
– Old Lodge Skins
All right, Grandfather.
– Jack Crabb
She also has a very soft skin. The only trouble with snake women is they copulate with horses, which makes them strange to me. She say’s she doesn’t. That’s why I call her “Doesn’t Like Horses”. But, of course, she’s lying.
– Old Lodge Skins
I have a wife. And four horses.
– Younger Bear
I have a horse… and four wives.
– Jack Crabb
Well, Jack. Now you know. This is a house of ill fame. And I’m a fallen flower. This life is not only wicked and sinful. It isn’t even any fun.
– Louise Pendrake
Well, that’s the story of this old Indian fighter. That’s the story of the Human Beings, who was promised land where they could live in peace. Land that would be theirs as long as grass grow, wind blow, and the sky is blue.
– Jack Crabb
Mr. Crabb, I didn’t know…
– Historian
Get out. Get out.
– Jack Crabb
Sure, I’m white. Didn’t you hear me say, “God bless George Washington. God bless my mother.”? I mean, now what kind of Indian would say a fool thing like that?
– Jack Crabb
She was calling him a devil and moaning for help, but I didn’t get no idea she wanted to be rescued.
– Jack Crabb
You and I are even at last. I paid you the life I owe you. And the next time we meet, I can kill you without becoming an evil person.
– Younger Bear
This boy is no longer a boy. He’s a brave. He is little in body, but his heart is big. His name shall be “Little Big Man.”
– Old Lodge Skins
You’re not going to hang me.
– Jack Crabb
Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision.
– General Custer
Custer was right. I was a total failure as an Indian.
– Jack Crabb
Mr. Merriweather, you don’t know when you’re licked!
– Jack Crabb
Licked? I’m not licked. I’m tarred and feathered, that’s all.
– Mr. Merriweather
At first sight of an Indian camp, what you think is, “I see their dump. Where’s their camp?”
– Jack Crabb
Any damn fool can drink himself to death.
– Wild Bill Hickock
Lord help us, these young girls is deadly!
– Jack Crabb
My heart soars like a hawk.
– Old Lodge Skins