California Passage

Whalen:
Funny you two being partners. I've never been able to explain that. You don't like him.

Mike Prescott:
Very simple, Whalen. I don't like people.

Mike Prescott:
There's a thousand unpleasant things about running a dump like this, but there's one pleasant thing. I can keep out anybody I want to. That's a description of you. Now find somewhere else to pretend you're a big, bad gunfighter with a gun slung down low.

Bob Martin:
Why you...

Mike Prescott:
Keep on chasin' drunken cowboys or slow movin' miners, 'cause you're just not very fast. Now get going before I have one of the smaller waiters throw you out.

Bob Martin:
I'll kill you for this!

Mike Prescott:
I wish you had money; I'd make you a sizeable bet on it. Vamoose.

Sheriff Willy:
Been gone about four months, wasn't it, Mike?

Mike Prescott:
About.

Sheriff Willy:
The stage has been held up five times during those months - every time when the gold has gone out with it.

Mike Prescott:
I went back east.

Sheriff Willy:
You could say that, hid out in the hills and taken those five shipments. I'm workin' by process of elimination. A real smart lad is workin' those hold-ups and there's very few real smart people around. You're one of 'em... see what I mean?

Mike Prescott:
I'm torn between being flattered and being indignant.

Sheriff Willy:
See what I mean about civilization comin' to Coarse Gold by degrees?

Bess Martin:
I'm sorry for my opinion about you, Sheriff. I thought you were incompetent.

Sheriff Willy:
Oh, no. I'm irregular, even off maybe, but I'm not incompetent.

Lincoln 'Linc' Corey:
It better be, or I'll put a pleat in your skull.

Mike Prescott:
Hasn't that girl got enough trouble without adding you to her list?

Lincoln 'Linc' Corey:
Well, maybe my intentions are honorable.

Mike Prescott:
Well, I guess you can spell the word.

Maria Sanchez:
Because you're a man!

Stella:
And a better reason I never heard. Beat it!