Maverick (TV Series)

Two Tickets to Ten Strike (1959)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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Quotes 

• Frankie French : Big talk. But you don't scare me, lover. Not if anger, greed, and curiosity is the only thing that gets you going.

  Bret Maverick : It's possible Pappy left something out.

• [first lines] 

  Stagecoach Driver : Whoa.

  Frankie French : Well, well, so this is Ten Strike. San Francisco's got nothing to worry about.

  Bret Maverick : One thing to be said about traveling by stage. By the time you get there, you don't care where.

• Frankie French : Okay, let's see. Uh, sign says Faro City, 18 miles. How's that?

  Bret Maverick : Too close.

  Frankie French : Prairie Flats, 20 miles, then?

  Bret Maverick : Too far.

  Frankie French : Hold it, lover, you wouldn't be thinking about going back to Ten Strike.

  Bret Maverick : Wouldn't I?

  Frankie French : Now, look, you just can't go...

  Bret Maverick : Frankie. Frankie, my Pappy used to say, there's just about three reasons why most men do anything. greed, curiosity and anger. And I don't think he really meant most men because he was looking right at me when he said it.

• Bret Maverick : As my Pappy used to say, "A coward dies a thousand deaths. A brave man, only one." Thousand-to-one's a pretty good advantage.

• Bret Maverick : You know why I'm not gonna kill you?

  Vic Nolan : Why?

  Bret Maverick : You keep asking yourself that, and if you can't think of any reason, maybe I can't either.

• Frankie French : Guess I'd want the man I marry to be braver than you, anyway.

  Bret Maverick : He'd have to be.

• Mae Miller : No luck tonight?

  Bret Maverick : Why, ma'am, luck's got nothing to do with poker.

  Mae Miller : I was right, you are a professional.

  Bret Maverick : Just a serious student. It beats working.

  Mae Miller : The way you play, uh, that isn't work?

  Bret Maverick : It's a delicate point. I try not to think about it.

• [last lines] 

  Bret Maverick : Frankie, there's a couple of things we gotta get settled. I am not proud and I'm not in love, especially with you. I have no intention of getting married and if I did... it wouldn't be to you. I mean...

  Frankie French : Anybody ever tell you, lover, you talk too much?

• Frankie French : I always buy hats when I'm confused.

  Bret Maverick : I believe it. I've seen some of 'em.

  Bret Maverick : I didn't say I had good sense.

• Bret Maverick : I didn't think anyone in this town knew me well enough to ask me to leave.

• Bret Maverick : Let's get something straight, Frankie. I am not jealous. I'm not the jealous type. And if I was, I wouldn't be jealous of you.