1883 (2021-22) Memorable Lines

LaMonica Garrett as Thomas, helping Shea Brennan lead a wagon train West in 1883 (2021-22)

Gratiela Brancusi as Noemi, getting closer to wagon train scout Thomas in 1883 (2021-22)

Memorable lines:

James Dutton, arriving in Fort Worth: “What’s the rules on firearms in this town?
Supplier: “They’ll pick up apart if you ain’t got one.”

Shea Brennan of James Dutton, watching him take care of a pick-pocket: “He’s gonna pick a fight he can’t win before long.”

Josef: “We leave in the morning.”
Shea Brennan: “We leave when you’re ready. And you won’t be ready in the morning.”

Train passenger to Elsa, when she drops her eyes at his compliment: “Don’t do that. Don’t hide from it. Beauty’s meant to be admired.”

Marc Rissman as Josef, a leader of the German immigrants, pointing out bandits in 1883 (2021-22)

Anna Fiamora as Risa, Josef’s wife, coming face to face with a bandit in 1883 (2021-22)

Elsa: “Someday, I’ll only ride in the front of the train.”
Nargaret Dutton: “That’s a child’s goal. A woman’s goal is to never ride the train again because she has a home she never wants to leave.”
Elsa: “I guess we’re both a ways from our goal.”

James Dutton, lifting his 5-year old son John when his family arrives by train in Fort Worth: “Well it looks like you survived the journey?”
John: “Barely. The man beside me shit himself, and I had to smell it the whole way here.”
Claire Dutton, Jame’s sister, scoldingly: “James, you’re children are feral. Absolutely feral.”

Claire Dutton, about the death of her husband: “Can’t believe in heaven, then be sad when people go there.”

James Dutton of his sister Claire: “Losing her husband didn’t soften her much.”
Margaret Dutton: “You could soak that woman in buttermilk for a month, and it wouldn’t soften her a bit.”

Dawn Olivieri as Claire Dutton, James Dutton’s widowed sister who heads West with the rest of his family in 1883 (2021-22)

Emma Malouff as Mary Abel Dutton, Claire’s daughter. more prim and proper than Elsa Dutton in 1883 (2021-22)

Elsa, as her dad slips a pistol into her saddlebag: “What’s that for?”
James Dutton: “Not sure. But I’d sure hate for you not to have it when we find out.”

Claire of James Dutton, of their journey West: “He’s a dreamer, Margaret. Always has been. And they never come true.”
Margaret Dutton: “It’s coming true, Claire.”
Claire: “No. This is not a dream. This is the nightmare. You’ll see.”

Marshal Jim Courtright, of the bandits who terrorized the wagon train, several of whom he and the wagon train leaders have gunned down in a saloon: “Is there any more?”
Josef, squatting and trembling by the bar, surveys the carnage.
Marshal: “Don’t just sit there shakin’. Are there any more?”

Elsa: “I painted a picture of my husband in my mind. He don’t look like you.”
Ennis: “Well, I’m a cowboy, ma’am. We don’t look like nobody’s husband. But we’re the ones you think about when your husbands ain’t around.”

Eric Nelson as Ennis, the cowboy who wins Elsa Dutton’s heart in 1883 (2021-22)

James Landry Hebert as Wade, leader of the cowboys guarding the wagon train’s cattle herd in 1883 (2021-22)

Thomas, at a river crossing: “Ain’t no good options, captain. Just know winter’s the worst option. As slow as these folks move, we’re bitin’ off a decent chunk of it already.”

James Dutton to son John, after he’s shot his first deer: “When you kill a thing, son, it makes you a little less a man, more animal. Now we try to find a balance between them. That’s all life is. Understand?”
His 5-year-old son shakes his head “no.”
James, smiling: “I didn’t either the first time I heard it.”

Margaret Dutton of daughter Elsa: “She has her eyes on this cowboy. And he’s eyeing her right back.”
James Dutton, joking: “Well, I’ll shoot him first thing in the morning, honey.”

James Dutton, when Shea Brennan notes that his wife will have to handle the river crossing: “My wife can back a wagon through the doors of a saloon. She’ll be fine.”

Tom Hanks as Gen. Meade, meeting James Dutton on the Antietam battlefield in a flashback scene in 1883 (2021-22)

Rita Wilson as Carolyn, the friendly storekeeper Margaret Dutton meets at Doan’s Crossing in 1883 (2021-22)

James Dutton: “I ain’t no fuckin’ farmer.”
Shea Brennan: “You were?”
James Dutton: “I was a captain too. Don’t call myself that either.”

Wade, when Shea Brennan balks at starting to use the cattle herd for food: “This ain’t the part of the trip where we skinny up. This is the part where we get fat. Skinny part comin’.”

Shea Brennan: “This talkin’ back is getting contagious.”
Thomas: “You need to have a word with that farmer. A word that sticks.”

Shea Brennan: “The most terrifying thing on this planet is the unknown.”
Thomas: “That’s because you ain’t never been whipped, captain. Let someone put a whip to your back, then tell me the unknown is what scares you.”

Billy Bob Thornton as Jim Courtright, sheriff in Fort Worth, about to help Shea Brennan and Thomas deal with bandits in 1883 (2021-22)

Series creator Taylor Sheridan as Charles Goodnight, a rancher who helps the wagon train leaders track down bandits in 1883 (2021-22)

Ennis, after James Dutton has caught him kissing Elsa: “He ain’t gonna shoot me?”
Elsa: “No. He said I could shoot you. If you act up.”
Ennis: “Well, actin’ up’s my only skill.”
Elsa: “No it ain’t. Do it (kiss me) again.”

James Dutton, as his wife prepares to drive their wagon across a river: “Nervous?”
Margaret Dutton: “I’m fine.”
James: “I love you.”
Margaret: “Why’d you say that?”
James: “I just want you to know it.”
Margaret: “Now I’m nervous.”

Elsa: “What a silly thing, kissing? What a pointless, purposeless thing? And I couldn’t wait for another.”

Margaret Dutton: “The only rules you need to follow are the ones in your heart.”
Elsa Dutton, eagerly: “Are we gonna talk about sex now?”
Margaret Dutton: “We just did.”

Martin Sensmeier as Sam, the Comanche warrior Elsa falls in love with in 1883 (2021-22)

Graham Greene as Spotted Eagle, a crow elder who points James Dutton to Paradise Valley in 1883 (2021-22)

James Dutton to daughter Elsa: “The meanest thing you can do to yourself is hate somebody else. I know what it feels like to hate the world. You don’t want to feel it, honey. Be sad. Miss him. Cry yourself blind. But you leave the hatin’ to me.”

Elsa: “What do I call you?”
Comanche brave: “Sam.”
Elsa: “Sam. Why Sam?”
Sam: “It was the name of the man who killed my wife. I know because I made him tell me. And I killed him and took it.”

James Dutton, finding Elsa after a tornado rips through the wagon train: “Now you can tell anybody who’ll listen that you lived through hell.”
Elsa: “It wasn’t hell, daddy. It was beautiful.”
Dutton: “Well, baby girl, you must have been chased by a different tornado than I was because my tornado was hell.”

Shea Brennan: “Your girl’s starting to ride like a Comanche.”
James Dutton looks on, concerned, as his daughter rides, whooping alongside Sam.
Charles Goodnight: “That is a compliment, James.”

James Jordan as Cookie, the cook who joins the wagon train at Doan’s Crossing in 1883 (2021-221)

Noah Le Gros as Colton, one of the cowboys helping the emigrants make their way West in 1883 (2021-22)

Margaret Dutton to Elsa: “There’s a map in your father’s mind. No one can stop him from following it. No sense in trying.”

James Dutton: “You think our daughter’s the only one out here falling in love. I bet there are emigrant kids fooling around behind every bush along this creek. Our’s just doesn’t hide it. If she loves something, she’ll hold its hand in front of the whole world.”
Margaret Dutton: “She gets that from you.”
James Dutton: “She gets racing up that hill from me. But the way she loves, she gets that from you.”

Wyoming cattleman’s association deputy to Shea Brennan: “You’re lucky to still be sitting a horse, old man. Don’t let your mouth start a fight your pistol can’t finish.”

Elsa Dutton: “Got shot with an arrow.”
James Dutton: “I’m aware.”
Elsa: “Tell mamma to save it. Don’t let her throw it away. I want to show Sam.”

Gratiela Brancusi as Noemi, desperate after the death of her husband on her trip West in 1883 (2021-22)

LaMonica Garrett as Thomas, about to make a horse thief pay the ultimate price in 1883 (2021-22)

Shea Brennan: “We get tough or die in this country. That’s for sure.”

Elsa: “Funny. When you think about it. All those people from Europe. Don’t speak our language. Don’t know anything about this place. Risking their lives over rumors and dreams.”
James Dutton: “Rumors and dreams built this whole world, honey. Every inch of it.”

Elsa: “See you in the valley, mama.”
Margaret Dutton: “See you there.”

Tim McGraw as James Dutton, teaching hunting etiquette to his young son in 1883 (2021-22)

Sam Elliott as Shae Brennan, headed off to see the ocean and fulfill a promise to his late wife in 1883 (2021-22)