"[Caleb is crying] Stop that, boy!"
"[Jeremiah and Caleb see a bird flying across the sky] Hawk. Goin' for the Musselshell. Take me a week's ridin', and he'll be there in... hell, he's there already."
"[to Jeremiah at first meeting, when Del was buried up to his neck in sand] No one's passed in front of me, can't say what's happened behind me."
"There's a fine horse under me."
"Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?"
"[to Jeremiah after slipping fresh scalps onto his pack horse in face of approaching Indians] I didn't know they was gonna be Flatheads."
"[to Jeremiah] You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!"
"He may be a Christian and speak of the bible, but he still an Indian, and his rules is his rules. If you value your hair, you will get married!"
"[to Jeremiah at his wedding] You can take her to Fort Hauley and sell her, but you best take her my friend. Maybe she ain't near bad."
"“I ain’t never seen ’em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills and the Alps is for children to climb. Keep good care of your hair. These here is God’s finest sculpturins and there ain’t no laws for the brave ones. And there ain’t no asylums for the crazy ones. And there ain’t no churches excepting for this right here. And there ain’t no priests excepting the birds. By God I are a mountain man and I’ll live until an arrow or a bullet finds me and then I’ll leave my bones right here on this great map of the magnificent…"
"[to Jeremiah amidst his ongoing fight with the Crows] I cannot brag on your choice of campsites."
"[note on Hatchet Jack] I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack."
"His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows where abouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below."
"A man of peace driven wild!"
"The man who became a legend. The film destined to be a classic!"
"His Mountain. His Peace. His Great Hunts. His Young Bride. With All That, It Should Have Been Different."
"Some say he's dead...some say he never will be."
"Robert Redford - Jeremiah Johnson"
"Will Geer - Bear Claw Chris Lapp"
"Stefan Gierasch - Del Gue"
"Joaquín Martínez - Paints His Shirt Red"
"Allyn Ann McLerie - the Crazy Woman"
"Paul Benedict - Reverend Lindquist"
"Jack Colvin - Lieutenant Mulvey"
"Richard Angarola - Chief Two-Tongues Lebreaux"