Paint Your Wagon (1969)

Jean Seberg: Elizabeth

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Quotes 

• Ben : You was down at the rapids just now, bare beam and buck naked?

  Elizabeth : Well, I'm not like to take a bath with my clothes on, Mr. Rumson.

  Ben : Are you trying to tell me that you was taking a *bath*?

  Elizabeth : That's right. I was taking a bath.

  Ben : In the middle of the night?

  Elizabeth : Mr. Rumson, in a community of 400 men, would you rather I took my bath "bare beam and buck naked" in the middle of the day?

• Elizabeth : Did you know that the Fenty's had an apple farm back in Pennsylvania?

  Ben Rumson : Apple jack, huh?

  Mr. Fenty : No, sir, we did not make apple jack!

  Ben Rumson : Then, what did you grow the apples for?

  Mr. Fenty : Mr. Rumson, do you think that everything that comes out of the earth should be used to make liquor?

  Ben Rumson : Whenever possible, yes.

• Mad Jack Duncan : All right.

  [grabs Jacob Woodling by the beard] 

  Mad Jack Duncan : What about it Mormons?

  Sarah Woodling : [whispering]  Jacob. We need every penny, Jacob. And I can't bear another day of those martyred looks. There. There it is again!

  Elizabeth : This isn't a martyred look, Sarah. This look is puuuure - hatred.

  Jacob Woodling : Quiet! Brigham Young has twenty seven wives and he hasn't had half the trouble with them that I've had with the two of you!

  Elizabeth : Then simplify your life, Jacob. Sell me.

  Jacob Woodling : But Elizabeth: you don't know what you'll get.

  Elizabeth : I know what I've had.

• Elizabeth : I lived with a man who had two wives. Why can't a woman have two husbands?

• Mr. Fenty : Horton, how did that bottle get in your pocket? HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING HARD LIQUOR?

  Horton : Well, since this afternoon. I know you don't approve, Pop, but believe me, until you've had a good cigar and a shot of whiskey, you're missing the second and third best things in life.

  Rumson : Horton!

  Pardner : Where'd you take him, Ben?

  Elizabeth : Damn you, Ben Rumson. What are you going to teach this boy next? How to cheat at cards, or just physical education with one of Willie's floozies?

  Horton : That's the best one, Pop!

  Rumson : Horton!

  Elizabeth : Is that what you did today, Ben?

  Rumson : That's what *he* did today, Elizabeth! I tell you, that boy's got a talent for dissipation that is absolutely unique!

  [Horton beams] 

• Pardner : You said she was in love with me.

  Ben Rumson : Didn't you say you loved him?

  Elizabeth : Yes, l did, and l do.

  Pardner : You just said you were in love with Ben.

  Elizabeth : Yes, l did, and l am.

  Pardner : Ben, do you get that feeling you need a drink?

  Ben Rumson : How did you know?

  Pardner : Cos l do, too.

  Ben Rumson : But, Pardner, you don't drink.

  Pardner : No, but l'm changing.

  Ben Rumson : And it takes a woman to do it.