Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Quotes

“Nobody knows anything.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“I'm not crazy; I'm just colorful.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Morons. I've got morons on my team.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“You just keep thinking, Butch; that's what you're good at.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Butch: Now after we.... wait a minute...
Sundance: What?
Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there?
Sundance: Lefors ? No.
Butch: Good. For a minute there I thought we were in trouble.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Sundance: [to Etta] What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you. But the minute you start to whine or make a nuisance, I don't care where we are, I'm dumping you flat.
Butch: Don't sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Kid -- the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“When I say Bolivia, you just think California.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful.
Guard: People kept robbing it.
Butch: Small price to pay for beauty.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Who are those guys?”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Butch: Y'know, when I was a kid, I always figured on being a hero when I grew up.
Sundance: Too late now.
Butch: You didn't have to say that—what'd you have to say that for?”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay

“Something's got you panicked and it's too late. You may be the biggest thing ever to hit this area, but in the long run, you're just two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you're still nothing but a couple of two-bit outlaws on the dodge... —you just want to hide out till it's old times again, but it's over. It's over, don't you get that? It's over and you're both gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose where.”
― William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay