It took me a long, long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.
6 seconds sound clip from the The Magnificent Seven (1960) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:54:21 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Sure you hate them. Because you come from a village just like that one. You yourself are a farmer.
- Yes. Yes, I'm one of them. But who made us the way we are, hm?
- Men with guns. Men like Calvera and... men like you. And now me.
- So what do you expect us to be?
- Nobody throws me my own guns and says run. Nobody.
- It took me a long, long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.
- Right now, I belong back in that border town, sleepin' on white sheets.
- I think I'll ride back to that village.
- You're crazy, all of you! They won't lift a finger to help. Think of the odds.
- Harry, nobody's asking you to go back.
- Ride on, Harry. It's all right.
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