227 quotes found
"Prison life is more structured than most men care for."
"I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn't easy with that sumbitch Reagan in the White House. I don't know. They say he's a decent man, so maybe his advisors are confused."
"At first I didn't believe it — that this woman, who looked as fertile as the Tennessee Valley, could not bear children. But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."
"I drifted off thinking about happiness, birth, new life. But now I was haunted by a vision of — he was horrible! — a lone biker of the apocalypse; a man with all the powers of hell at his command. He turned day into night and laid to waste everything in his path. He was especially hard on the little things, the helpless and the gentle creatures. He left a scorched earth in his wake, befouling even the sweet desert breeze which crossed his brow. I didn't know where he came from or why. I didn't know if he was dream or vision, but I feared that I myself had unleashed him. He was the fury that would be as soon as Florence Arizona found her little Nathan gone!"
"There's what's right, and there's what's right, and never the twain shall meet."
"Nathan needs some Huggies, I'll be out directly. Mind you stay strapped in."
"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."
"That night I had a dream. I dreamt I was as light as the ether, a floating spirit visiting things to come. The shades and shadows of the people in my life wrestled their way into my slumber. I dreamt that Gale and Evelle had decided to return to prison. Probably that's just as well. I don't mean to sound superior, and they're a swell couple of guys, but maybe they weren't ready yet to come out into the world. And then I dreamed on, into the future, to a Christmas morn in the Arizona home where Nathan Junior was opening a present from a kindly couple who preferred to remain unknown. I saw Glen a few years later, still having no luck getting the cops to listen to his wild tales about me and Ed. Maybe he threw in one Polack joke too many. I don't know. And still I dreamed on, further into the future than I'd ever dreamed before, watching Nathan Junior's progress from afar, taking pride in his accomplishments, as if he were our own, wondering if he ever thought of us, and hoping that maybe we'd broadened his horizons a little, even if he couldn't remember just how they got broadened. But still I hadn't dreamt nothin' about me and Ed, until the end. And this was cloudier, 'cause it was years, years away. But I saw an old couple being visited by their children, and all their grandchildren too. The old couple wasn't screwed up, and neither were their kids or their grandkids. And I don't know. You tell me. This whole dream, was it wishful thinking? Was I just fleeing reality like I know I'm liable to do? But me and Ed, we can be good, too. And it seemed real. It seemed like us, and it seemed like, well, our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away, where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved. I don't know. Maybe it was Utah."
"Give me that baby, you warthog from hell!"
"We didn't escape, we released ourselves on our own recognizance."
"H.I., you're young and you got your health. What you want with a job?"
"Well, this is nothing but a goddamn shakedown and a screwjob, any way you look at it!"
"And if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass a-hoppin'."
"I don't know what his damn jammies looked like... they had Yodas and shit on them."
"Nobody sleeps naked in this house boy!"
"800 leaf tables and no chairs. You can't sell leaf tables and no chairs. Chairs you got a dinette set, no chairs you got dick! I ask my wife she got more sense."
"Are you boys gonna chase down your leads or are you gonna sit around drinking coffee in the one house in the state where I know my boy ain't at?"
"Everyone leaves microbes and whatnot. Hell, that’s your forte ain’t it, tracking down them microbes left by criminals and commies n’ shit. That's your whole God-damn raison d'etre, ain't it?"
"I said, "Healthy white baby? Five years? What else you got?" Said they got two Koreans and a negra born with his heart on the outside. It's a crazy world."
"Say, did you hear about the person of the Polish persuasion who walked into a bar with a big 'ol pile of shit in his hands and he says, "Look what I almost stepped in"?"
"Payroll Cashier: Government do take a bite, don't she?"
"Leonard Smalls: You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop."
"Feisty Hayseed: Well, which is it young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? I mean to say, if'n I freeze I can't rightly drop, and if'n I drop I'm a gonna be in motion."
"Hayseed in Pickup: Son, you got a panty on your head."
"Dot: Riley!. ... You take that diaper off your head! You put it back onto your sister!"
"Dot: You gotta get 'em diptet boosters yearly or else they'll develop lockjaw and night vision."
"Dot: That there's for his orthodonture and his university. You soak his thumb in iodine and you might get by without the orthodonture, but it won't knock a thing off the university."
"Nicolas Cage as Herbert "H.I."/"Hi" McDunnough"
"Holly Hunter as Edwina "Ed" McDunnough"
"Trey Wilson as Nathan Arizona, Sr."
"John Goodman as Gale Snoats"
"William Forsythe as Evelle Snoats"
"Sam McMurray as Glen"
"Frances McDormand as Dot"
"Randall "Tex" Cobb as Leonard Smalls (Lone Biker of the Apocalypse)"
"T.J. Kuhn as Nathan Jr."
"Lynne Dumin Kitei as Florence Arizona"
"Warren Keith as Younger FBI Agent"
"Henry M. Kendrick as Older FBI Agent"
"Charles "Lew" Smith as Whitey (convenience store clerk)"
"M. Emmet Walsh as Machine Shop Ear-Bender"
"Patrick McAreavy as Whitetail Ferguson"
"I won't be arrested today. You threw us, Johnny."
"The fight has now commenced, go to fighting or get away!"
"Mind me now, Mannen, put up those guns and go on home."
"I think you came here to make a fight with me, and if you did, you can have one here right now."
"I am a friend of Doc Holliday, because when I was city marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, he came to my rescue and saved my life, when I was surrounded by desperados."
"I was tired of being threatened by Ike Clanton and his gang. I believed from what they had said to others and to me, and from their movements, that they intended to assassinate me the first chance they had, and I thought if I had to fight for my life against them, I had better make them face me in an open fight."
"You damned dirty cur thief, you have been threatening our lives, and I know it. I think I should be justified shooting you down any place I should meet you, but if you are anxious to make a fight, I will go anywhere on earth to make a fight with you, even over to the San Simon among your own crowd."
"I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self defense, and in the performance of official duty. When Billy Clanton and Frank McLowry drew their pistolsl I knew it was a fight for life, and I drew and fired in defense of my own life and the lives of my brothers and Doc Holliday."
"Doc [Holliday] was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew."
"We had no YMCA's. [To biographer Stuart Lake, when asked late in life why he'd spent so much time in saloons.]"
"In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry"
"Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry"
"Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers."
"There is no hope,my friend. There is only what we do."
"Wyatt Earp is one of the few men I personally knew in the West in the early days, whom I regarded as absolutely destitute of physical fear. I have often remarked, and I am not alone in my conclustions, that what goes for courage in a man is generally the fear of what others will think of him-- in other words, personal bravery is largely made up of self-respect, egotism, and an apprehension of the opinions of others. Wyatt Earp's daring and apparent recklessness in time of danger is wholly characteristic; personal fear doesn't enter into the equation, and when everything is said and done, I believe he values his own opinion of himself more than that of others, and it is his own good report that he seeks to preserve. . . . He never at any time in his career resorted to the pistol excepting in cases where such a course was absolutely necessary. Wyatt could scrap with his fists, and had often taken all the fight out of bad men, as they were called, with no other weapons than those provided by nature. -Bat Masterson"
"[Wyatt] Earp is a man who never smiled or laughed. He was the most fearless man I ever saw. . . . He is an honest man. All officers here who were associated with him declare that he is honest, and would have decided according to his belief in the face of an arsenal. -Dick Cogdell"
"Wyatt Earp was a wonderful officer. He was game to the last ditch and apparently afraid of nothing. The cowmen all respected him and seemed to recognize his superiority and authority at such times as he had to use it. -Jimmy Cairns"
"John Doe (musician) -"
"Mark Harmon -"
"- Allie Earp"
"as Bessie Earp"
"- Mr. Sutherland"
"- Mrs. Sutherland"
"Rex Lins -"
"Gabriel Folse -"
"- Francis O'Rourke"
"- Urilla Sutherland"
"- Virginia Earp"
"- Lou Earp"
"This is the circus of Dr. Lao. We show you things that you don't know. Oh, we spare no pains and we spare no dough. Oh, we want to give you one hell of a show! And youth may come and age may go, But no more circuses like this show."
"Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand."
"Whatever men do not understand they find unconvincing."
"Now, Mr. Cunningham, do you suppose this garrulous intruder may be a... a swindler, perhaps, an assassin, a charlatan plotting some curious disaster for your town? Such characters exist, but they are secretive rather than mysterious. I, sir, am a major mystery."
"You worry too much. You worry about how I brought my circus to Abalone with wagons. You worry about the future of your town. Or, if the sun will rise a year from today. The answer is to such matters, remain closed behind a curtain. Then, time says, presto! And out they come."
"My dear lady, the role of skeptic becomes you not. There are things in the world not even the experience of a lifetime spent in Abalone could conceive of."
"Mike, the whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."
"Now, come on, Doc! What kind of oriental hocus-pocus is going on around here? A circus with no wagons, no animals, no cages? A crazy old magician? What's it all about?"
"All those stories about me, they're lies. I'm not a bank robber or a cattle rustler, and I've never kicked a woman in the stomach even once, really!"
"Apollonius of Tyana: I only read futures; I don't evaluate them."
"Merlin: Tricks? Gadzooks, Madam, these are not tricks! I do magic. I — I create, I transpose, I transubstantiate, I break up, I recombine — but I never trick!"
"Enter The Fabulous World of Dr. Lao... Whose Wonders Never Cease!"
"Bolt the doors! Lock the windows! Dr. Lao's coming to town!"
"Which face will the wily doctor reveal to you?"
"Tony Randall — Dr. Lao, Apollonius of Tyana, many other roles"
"Barbara Eden — Angela Benedict"
"Kevin Tate — Mike Benedict"
"Arthur O'Connell — Clint Stark"
"John Ericson — Ed Cunningham"
"Lee Patrick — Mrs. Cassin"
"Frank Cady — Mayor James Sargent"
"Royal Dano -- Lucas. Stark's henchman"
"Dal McKennon — Lean Cowboy"
"Chubby Johnson — Fat Cowboy"
"Douglas Fowley — Toothless Cowboy"
"You're not going to die, Mom. I promise... You're not going to die cause I won't let you."
"My mom said she'd always be with me. She chose your mom as a way of coming back, but I guess it would be hard for you to understand that. But it's true. She's my mother now."
"[narrating; last line] Henry is gone, and the rest of us are safe. But sometimes- late at night- I find myself thinking... not about Henry, but about Susan. And wondering. If she had to do it over, would she make the same choice? I guess I'll always wonder... but I know I'll never ask."
"[taunting Mark as he's hanging, about to fall] If I let you go... do you think you could fly?"
"I promise you something amazing... something you'll never forget. Are you in?"
"You like my sister, don't you? Such a sweet little girl...it'd be too bad if something were to happen to her... like she got hurt... you'd be sad, wouldn't you, Mark? But hey, accidents can happen...just ask my mom about Richard."
"No fair? What do you think this is, a game?"
"Hey, Mark. Don't fuck with me."
"You really thought I was going to jump, huh? I guess you don't know me very well, Mom."
"In a quiet town...In a comfortable home...In a perfect body...Evil can be as close as someone you love."
"Visiting the relatives isn't always a treat."
"Das böse hat viele gesichter (Evil has many faces) (German DVD)"
"El mal tiene muchas caras (Evil has many faces) (Spanish DVD)"
"A gonosz igazi arca (The true face of evil) (Hungarian DVD)"
"Evil has many faces"
"Macaulay Culkin - Henry Evans"
"Elijah Wood - Mark Evans"
"Wendy Crewson - Susan Evans"
"David Morse - Jack"
"Daniel Hugh Kelly - Wallace Evans"
"Jacqueline Brookes - Alice Davenport"
"Quinn Culkin - Connie Evans"
"How are we supposed to have a meaningful family relationship if he's always on the verge of killing you?"
"You're a very weird kid."
"I could lay under you, eat fried chicken and do a crossword puzzle at the same time, that's how much you bother me."
"You kiss me where the sun don't shine."
"Ellen Burstyn - Alice Hyatt"
"Alfred Lutter - Tommy"
"Kris Kristofferson - David"
"Billy Green Bush - Donald"
"Diane Ladd - Flo"
"Lelia Goldoni - Bea"
"Vic Tayback - Mel"
"Jodie Foster - Audrey"
"Harvey Keitel - Ben"
"Valerie Curtin - Vera"
"Harry Northup - Joe & Jim's Bartender"
"This is Sand Rock, Arizona, of a late evening in early spring. It's a nice town, knowing its past and sure of its future, as it makes ready for the night, and the predictable morning. The desert blankets the earth, cooling, resting for the fight with tomorrow's sun. And in my house near the town, we're also sure of the future. So very sure."
"We are right, and we're not crazy. And if we've been seeing things, it's because we did see them."
"Did you know, Putnam, more people are murdered at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once - lower temperatures, people are easy-going. Over ninety two, it's too hot to move. But just ninety-two, people get irritable."
"We have a long way to go. By nightfall, we will have left your earth. You will not see us until it is time."
"You would be horrified at the sight of us. Had you fallen on our world, it might have been different. We understand more."
"From Ray Bradbury's great science fiction story!"
"NOTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE!"
"Amazing sights the human eye has never before seen!"
"Richard Carlson — John Putnam"
"Barbara Rush — Ellen Fields"
"Charles Drake — Sheriff Matt Warren"
"Joe Sawyer — Frank Daylon"
"Gene Wilder as Skip Donahue"
"Richard Pryor as Harry Monroe"
"Georg Stanford Brown as Rory Schultebrand"
"JoBeth Williams as Meredith"
"Miguel Ángel Suárez as Jesus Ramirez"
"Craig T. Nelson as Deputy Ward Wilson"
"Barry Corbin as Warden Walter Beatty"
"Nicolas Coster as Warden Henry Sampson"
"Joel Brooks as Len Garber"
"Jonathan Banks as Jack Graham"
"Erland Van Lidth as Grossberger"
"Charles Weldon as Blade"
"Franklyn Ajaye as Young Man in Hospital"
"Cedrick Hardman as Big Mean"
"Luis Avalos as Chico"
"Grand L. Bush as Slowpoke"
"Herbert Hirschman as Man at Dinner Party"
"Dave Moore as Skip Donahue (stunts)"
"Mickey Jones as Guard #8"
"Billy Beck as Flycatching Prisoner"
"Lee Purcell as Susan"
"Tony Burton as Guy who Punches Big Mean (uncredited)"
"Al Silvani as Inmate (uncredited)"
"Judge Parker told me once, "The men I hang never killed again. There are plenty I didn't hang, did." Now you tell me he was wrong."
"[to Chris] There sure has been a lot of killing since I met you."
"[leaving the room with his arms around three women] Chris, did I ever tell you I was born in Salt Lake? I'm a Mormon!"
"They say if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, there's a question of whether it made any noise. If none of us lives to tell about this, can be covered in glory?"
"A Brand New Seven—Doing Their Number! They put their lives on the line and let it ride!"
"Lee Van Cleef — U. S. Marshal Chris Adams"
"Michael Callan — Noah Forbes"
"Luke Askew — Mark Skinner"
"James Sikking — Captain Andy Hayes"
"Pedro Armendáriz Jr. — Pepe Carrall"
"William Lucking — Walt Drummond"
"Ed Lauter — Scott Elliott"
"Stefanie Powers — Laurie Gunn"
"Mariette Hartley — Arilla Adams"
"Ralph Waite — Jim Mackay"
"Melissa Murphy — Madge Buchanan"
"Allyn Ann McLerie — Mrs. Donavan"
"Gary Busey — Hank Allan"
"Robert Jaffe — Bob Allan"
"Darrell Larson — Shelly Donavan"
"Elizabeth Thompson — Skinner's Woman"
"Carolyn Conwell — Martha"
"Ron Stein — Juan De Toro"
"Rita Rogers — De Toro's Woman"
"Jason Wingreen — Warden of Tucson Territorial Prison"
"It's strange that you encourage people to invest their whole life savings, go into debt, just to buy a house they can't afford."
"We be the bitches of the badlands."
"Bo never knew his parents, and we never had kids. If I didn't stay, if I left, it would be like he never existed. I couldn't pack up and move on. He loved Empire. He loved his work so much. He loved being there. Everybody loved him. So I stayed. Same town, same house. Just like my dad used to say, "What's remembered lives." I maybe spent too much of my life just remembering, Bob."
"Before I moved into this squeeze inn, I was out looking for work and putting in applications. 2008, and it was just tough. I got to a really, really low point. And I thought about suicide. And I decided I was gonna go buy a bottle of booze, turn on the propane stove, and I was gonna drink that booze until I'm passed out. And if I woke up, I was gonna light a cigarette and I was gonna blow us all up. And I looked at my two sweet little trusting dogs, my Cocker Spaniel and my little Toy Poodle. And I... I just couldn't do that to them. And I thought, well, I can't do that to me either. So I was getting close to 62 and I went online to look at my social security benefits. It said $550. Fern, I have worked my whole life. I've worked since I was 12 years old. Raised two daughters. I couldn't believe it. So I'm online and I find Bob Wells' cheap RV living. I could live in a RV. Travel. And not have to work for the rest of my life."
"I'm gonna be 75 this year. I think I've lived a pretty good life. I've seen some really neat things kayaking all of those places. And... You know, like a moose in the wild. A moose family on the river in Idaho and big white pelicans landed just six feet over my kayak on a lake in Colorado. Or... Come around a bin, was a cliff and find hundreds and hundreds of swallow nests on the wall of the cliff. And the swallows flying all around and reflecting in the water. So it looks like I'm flying with the swallows and they're under me, and over me, and all around me. And little babies are hatching out, and eggshells are falling out of the nest, landing on the water and floating on the water. These little white shells. That was like, it's just so awesome. I felt like I've done enough. My life was complete. If I died right then, at that moment, would be perfectly fine."
"One of the things I love most about this life is that there's no final goodbye. You know, I've met hundreds of people out here and I don't ever say a final goodbye. I always just say, "I'll see you down the road." And I do. And whether it's a month, or a year, or sometimes years, I see them again."
"I think of an analogy as a work horse. The work horse that is willing to work itself to death, and then be put out to pasture. And that's what happens to so many of us. If society was throwing us away and sending us as the work horse out to the pasture, we work horses have to gather together and take care of each other. And that's what this is all about. The way I see it is that the Titanic is sinking and economic times are changing. And so my goal is to get the lifeboats out and get as many people into the lifeboats as I can."
"You know, I think that what the nomads are doing is not that different than what the pioneers did. I think Fern's part of an American tradition."
"Merle: I worked for corporate America, you know, for 20 years. My friend Bill worked for the same company. And... He had liver failure. A week before he was due to retire, HR called him in hospice and said, you know, let's talk about your retirement. And he died 10 days later, having never been able to take that sailboat that he bought out of his driveway. And he missed out on everything. Then he told me before he died, just don't waste any time, girl. Don't waste any time. So I retired as soon as I could. I didn't want my sailboat to be in the driveway when I died. So... yeah. And it's not. My sailboat is out here in the desert."
"Frances McDormand - Fern"
"David Strathairn - Dave"
"Linda May - Linda May"
"Charlene Swankie - Swankie"
"Bob Wells - Himself"
"Derek Endres - Derek"
"Peter Spears - Peter"
"Tay Strathairn - James"
"Dear Lulu, I got the adoption papers from the Army today. Riley would be so proud. Maybe even of both of us. Look, I'm no good at this poem stuff, so I'll just get to the damn point. Thanks. Thanks for saving my life."
"A filthy animal unfit for human company and a...DOG."
"They're rescues."
"Channing Tatum - Jackson Briggs"
"Jane Adams - Tamara"
"Kevin Nash - Gus"
"Q'orianka Kilcher - Niki"
"Ethan Suplee - Noah"
"Emmy Raver-Lampman - Bella"
"Nicole LaLiberte - Zoe"
"Luke Forbes - Captain Jones"
"Ronnie Gene Blevins - Keith"
"Aqueela Zoll - Callan"
"Junes Zahdi - Dr. Al-Farid"
"Amanda Booth - Tiffany"
"Cayden Boyd - Corporal Levitz"
"Bill Burr - Officer O’Shaughnessy"