Monte Walsh (2003 TV Movie)

John Michael Higgins: Robert Slocum

Quotes 

• Cal Brennan : See, these boys have no home, except for a horse and a cook shack. They got no property but a saddle and a gun. They don't earn any money. Got no wife, got no kids. They spend their entire life pushing cattle around to where them cattle don't want to go.

  Robert Slocum : Sounds like a terrible job.

  Cal Brennan : Yes, sir, it is a terrible job, but it's their job. All they got is freedom and pride; keeping their word and looking out for one another. All they got is their rules.

  Robert Slocum : And where are these rules written down?

  Cal Brennan : They're not written down, you damn fool. They're lived.

  Robert Slocum : But they work for us.

  Cal Brennan : They don't work for anybody. They work for the life.

• Robert Slocum : It's the twentieth century, Walsh. Stay out of the way of progress.

  Monte Walsh : I believe I will.

  Monte Walsh : [as Slocum's motorized cart passes]  Damn thing stinks worse than goats.