Bus Stop Quotes

[first lines]

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Are you ready, Virge?

Virgil Blessing: Anytime.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Turn him out!

[calf is released from chute]

[last lines]

Cherie: Bye, everybody! Bye! Bye.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Well, I've been thinkin' about them other fellas, Cherry. And well, what I mean is, I like you the way you are, so what do I care how you got that way?

Cherie: Bo!

[crying]

Cherie: That's the sweetest, tenderest thing anyone ever said to me.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: I still wish you was goin' back to the ranch with me more than anything I know.

Cherie: You do?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Yeah, I do.

Cherie: I'd go anywhere in the world with you now. Anywhere at all!

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Here, somebody hold this thing for me

[about a steer he'd just wrestled this to the ground]

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: .

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: My name is Beauregard Decker, ma'am. I am 21 years old and I own my own ranch up in Timber Hill, Montana, where I got a fine herd of Hereford cattle, a dozen horses and the finest sheep and hogs and chickens in the country. Now I come down for the rodeo tomorrow with the idea in mind to find me a angel and you're it. Now I don't have a whole lot of time for sweet talkin' around the bush so I would be much obliged if you would just step outside with me into the fresh air.

Cherie: What'd you say?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: My name if Beauregard Decker, ma'am. I am 21 years old and I own my own ranch up in Timber Hill, Montana, where I got a fine...

Cherie: I know. I heard all that part...

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: O.K. Let's get out of here!

Cherie: I'm mighty grateful for what you did but we're not allowed to go out with the customers. But you can buy me a drink if you want to. I'm so dry I'm spittin' cotton.

Virgil Blessing: Bo you're 21 years old and we're on our way to a big city, Phoenix, Arizona. It's time you met up with a gal.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: A gal?

Virgil Blessing: Oh, ain't nothin' to be scared of. You know, why, women and swimmin' is pretty much the same. You got good reflexes, boy. You'll make out just fine.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: I don't know anything about gals, Virge. Nothin' at all.

Virgil Blessing: Well, that's what I mean. It's about time you learned. It ain't nothin' to be scared of, Bo. You know how much you like swimmin' when you got used to it. Besides, I know the idea crossed your mind once or twice. I seen you lookin' at them pictures in Orville's magazines.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: If I do find me a gal, it ain't gonna be one of them gals from all those magazines. I already decided. I'm gonna get me a - angel.

Virgil Blessing: A angel?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: That's right.

Virgil Blessing: I wouldn't set my sights too high if I were you, Bo. You just figure on pickin' out some plain-lookin' little ol' gal, with a cooperatin' nature and a good personality. I mean, we gotta be realistic.

Virgil Blessing: What's some angel gonna want with a cowhand like you?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: What's that got to do with it? That steer this mornin', he didn't wanna get throwed, did he? Well, I throwed him. Some wild horse you're breakin', he don't wanna get broke, do he? But you don't let what he wants stop you. What makes you think a girl's any different?

Virgil Blessing: This trip is gonna be mighty educational.

Chérie: He called me an ignorant hillbilly. How do you like that?

Vera: Well, ain't ya? I don't mean ignorant. I mean, but you do come from the Ozarks.

Chérie: I ain't sung hillbilly since I was... Well, not since I turned chantooze. I've been tryin' to be somebody.

Saloon Manager: What's goin' on in here?

Vera: She's changing into her costume. You want her to go out there naked?

Saloon Manager: [to Chérie] Get out there and take care of them tables. Come on, Dinah Shore. Them cowboys is gettin' real lonesome.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Cherry.

Chérie: Chérie! It's French. It means "dear one."

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Well, my name's kinda French, Beauregard. It means somethin' too.

Chérie: What's it mean?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: I ain't gonna tell you that.

Chérie: No, I wouldn't.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Yes, you would.

Chérie: Honest, I wouldn't.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Well, it means - "good lookin'." I never told that to a single person in my whole life. My Ma was French. She gave it to me.

Chérie: That's a real pretty name. Beauregard. You are, too. Real beauregard!

Chérie: It was real nice the way you made everybody shut up in there, like you had respect for me. You made them have respect too. I liked that.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: You did?

Chérie: Yes.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: How about me? Did you like me too?

Chérie: Well, when I first saw you, I thought you was some kind of a hooligan, yellin' and stompin' like that. But when I realized you was doin' it for me, I was attracted to you.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Attracted? You was?

Chérie: I still am.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: You still are! Really attracted?

Chérie: Uh-huh. 'Course, it's only what you might call a physical attraction.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Physical?

Chérie: I mean, you're so - big and strong and, well, so darn healthy-lookin'.

Chérie: Now wait a minute. Somebody's got the wrong idea around here.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: What do you mean, Cherry?

Chérie: My name ain't Cherry. I told you, it's Chérie.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: I can't say it fancy like that. Anyway, what's the matter with Cherry?

Chérie: Well, it ain't - dignified.

Virgil Blessing: This whole thing is probably my fault. I told you it was about time you started learnin' somethin' about women. Now, I ain't sayin' this particular gal you picked out ain't a good one to practice on. But a fella can't go around marryin' the first gal he meets.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Why not?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: What's the difference between a, a physical attraction and, well, just a regular attraction?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Well, a gal can be attracted to a fella for lots of reasons. His mind, for instance.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: His mind?

Virgil Blessing: Sure. Like if he's smart or reads poetry or somethin'.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: No kiddin'?

Virgil Blessing: That's right.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: I can read and write. I don't know no poetry. But I can recite the Gettysburg Address. Would that count?

Virgil Blessing: It might, Bo. I doubt it, but it might.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: You see, Cherry, the whole problem is that you just haven't had time yet to get attracted to my mind.

Chérie: Your mind? I know all about your mind I ever wanna know.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Well, do you know I can say the Gettysburg Address?

Chérie: Come bustin' in here like a wild Indian. Sometime...

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Cherry?

Chérie: Well, what?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: "Four score and seven years ago, our Fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived..."

Chérie: Bo?

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: "In liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now, we're engaged in a great Civil War..."

Vera: You know, I think he is crazy.

Chérie: Sure he is. Crazy as a bedbug.

Life Magazine Photographer: Boing!

Life Magazine Reporter: [points to Chérie] There she is!

Vera: I just don't understand that boy. What's he got on his mind, anyhow?

Chérie: Me.

Virgil Blessing: He never even kissed a gal before he met you. You're forgettin' he spent his whole life pretty far out in the country.

Chérie: I know what happens in the country. I'm from the country myself. I've been kissin' boys since I was knee high to...

Virgil Blessing: Well, that's the point! You're kinda sophisticated for Bo.

Chérie: He sure didn't kiss like it was the first time.

Virgil Blessing: Well, Bo picks things up real quick.

Chérie: First time, huh?

Virgil Blessing: That's right.

Chérie: Sure ain't never had that honor before!

Virgil Blessing: There are some gals who don't like to be pushed and grabbed and lassoed and drug into buses in the middle of the night.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: How else was I gonna get her on the bus?

Chérie: I almost married a cousin when I was 14. But Pappy wouldn't have it.

Elma Duckworth: I never heard of anyone marrying so young!

Chérie: Down in the Ozarks, we don't waste much time.

Elma Duckworth: You've never been in love?

Chérie: I don't know. Maybe I have and I didn't know it. That's what I mean. Maybe I don't know what love is.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: You've been against this right from the beginning!

Virgil Blessing: That's right. First 'cause I figured the lady wasn't good enough for you. But now 'cause I figure you ain't good enough for her!

Carl: Whatcha lookin' at?

Grace: Oh, nothin'. Just your hands. You got real big hands.

Carl: Big all over.

Carl: One thing I can't stand is a bully.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: [holding Chérie upside down over his shoulder] Who says I'm a bully?

Chérie: I do!

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: [spanks Chérie's fanny] Quiet!

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Ain't no man ever got the best of me, and there ain't gonna be.

Carl: I'm willin' to try, cowboy! Just step outside.

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: Delighted!

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker: I lived all my life on a ranch and I guess I just didn't know anything about women. 'Cause they're different from men.

Chérie: Well, naturally.