Lonely Are the Brave (1962)

Gena Rowlands: Jerry Bondi

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• Jack Burns : I didn't want a house. I didn't want all those pots and pans. I didn't want anything but you. It's God's own blessing I didn't get you.

  Jerri Bonds : Why?

  Jack Burns : 'Cause I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts. Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him. A guy like that, he'd kill a woman like you. Because he couldn't love you, not the way you are loved.

• Jerri Bonds : Believe you me, if it didn't take men to make babies I wouldn't have anything to do with any of you!

• Jerri Bonds : Is there anything else you want?

  Jack Burns : A bath! I'm beginning to smell like a wild animal hasn't even been rained on for about five years.

• Jerry Bondi : Jack, what are you going to do?

  Jack Burns : Well, about every six months, I figure I owe myself a good drunk. It rinses your insides out, sweetens your breath and tones up your skin.

• Jack Burns : Yeah, but basically, you're still an Easterner.

  Jerry Bondi : What are you talking about, Jack?

  Jack Burns : Oh, it's easy to understand. A westerner likes open country. That means he's got to hate fences. And the more fences there are, the more he hates them.

  Jerry Bondi : I've never heard such nonsense in my life.

  Jack Burns : It's true though. Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespassing, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead! Do you know what I mean?

• Jerri Bonds : Maybe you'd be better off if they caught you.

  Jack Burns : Maybe, but I'd like to put it off for as long as possible.

• Jerry Bondi : Jack, I'm going to tell you something. The world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist. Maybe it never did... out there in the real world. And it's got real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. And you either go by the rules or you lose. You lose everything.

  Jack Burns : You can always keep something.

• Jerry Bondi : I was expecting you, Jack. Isn't that odd? I heard a horse and I knew it was your horse.

• Jerry Bondi : Jack I'm gonna tell you something. The world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist, maybe it never did. Out there is a real world and it's got real border and real fences, real laws and real trouble. And either you go by the rules or you lose.