"The girls all know the score. No escape. No surrender. No mercy. We got to kill every last rat bastard one of them, every last one. Not for revenge. Not because they deserve it. not because it'll make the world a better place. We need a heap of bloody bodies so when the mob boss, Wallenquist, looks over his charts of profits and losses, he'll see what it cost him to mess with the girls of Old Town. The valkyrie at my side is shouting and laughing with the pure, hateful, bloodthirsty joy of the slaughter. And so am I. The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never."

"Little Miho, you're an angel, you're a saint, you're Mother Teresa, you're Elvis. You're God. And if you'd gotten here about ten minutes sooner, we'd still have Jackie-Boy's head."

"I don't have a chance in hell of outrunning this cop. Not in this heap. The only question left is whether I'm gonna kill him or not. Tough call. For all I know, he's an honest cop, regular guy. Working stiff with a mortgage, a wife and a pile of kids."

"Sure, he's an asshole. Sure he's dead. Sure, I'm just imagining that he's talking. That doesn't stop the bastard from being absolutely right."

"She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him."

"I let him know I'm not fooling around."

"It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying, sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people."

"A hardtop with a decent engine. And make sure it's got a big trunk."

"You made a big mistake yourself...you didn't flush."

"I'm Shellie's new boyfriend, and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman."

"Most people think Marv is crazy. He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face. Or in a Roman arena, taking his sword to other gladiators like him. They would've tossed him girls like Nancy back then."

"Dozens of them, armed to the teeth. I'm outnumbered, outgunned... but the alley is crooked, dark, and very narrow. They can't surround me. Sometimes you can beat the odds by a careful choice of where to fight...Where to fight counts for a lot, but there's nothing like having your friends show up with lots of guns."

"You shut the hell up, Jackie Boy. You're dead. I'm just imagining this, so shut the hell up."

"A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere."

"Bain Boehlke - Mr. Mohra"

"Steve Park - Mike Yanagita"

"Cliff Rakerd - Officer Olson"

"Bruce Bohne - Lou"

"John Carroll Lynch - Norm Gunderson"

"Harve Presnell - Wade Gustafson"

"Kristin Rudrüd - Jean Lundegaard"

"Peter Stormare - Gaear Grimsrud"

"Steve Buscemi - Carl Showalter"

"William H. Macy - Jerry Lundegaard"

"Frances McDormand - Marge Gunderson"

"An ordinary place, an extraordinary thriller."

"A homespun murder story."

"Small town. Big crime. Dead cold."

"Shep Proudfoot: [beating Carl violently] Fucking little fucking weasel! Fuck you! You fucking motherfucking son of a fucking bitching fucking cunt! Jesus fucking Christ you fucking shitfuckbag motherfucker!"

"Mike Yanagita: So ya went and married Norm Son-of-a-Gunderson!"

"Mike Yanagita: Ya know, it's the Radisson, so it's pretty good."

"Wade Gustafson: Look, Jerry, you're not selling me a damn car. It's my show here."

"Wade Gustafson: It's my money. I'll deliver it - what do they care?...They want my money, they can deal with me."

"Gaear Grimsrud: You're a smooth, smoothie, yah know?"

"Stay away from me, man! Hey, go smoke a fuckin' peace pipe!"

"Shep! What the hell are you doing! I was bangin' that girl!"

"Just in town on business. Just in and out. Ha. Just a little of the old in-and-out."

"Keep it still back there, lady, or else we're gonna have to, ya know, to shoot ya."

"Would you crack the fuckin' window open, man. You know, it's proven that second-hand smoke is, uh, carcin-... uh, you know, a cancer agent."

"I answered the darn - I'm cooperating here!"

"[Practices calling Wade] Yah, Wade, It's Jerry, I... Yah, Wade, it's, I, it's Jerry... I don't know what to do it's Jean. I don't know what to do it's my wife. I don't know what to do it's Jean. Wade, it's Jerry, I... Wade, it's Jerry! We gotta talk! Oh, geez, it's terrible... [calls the number] Yah, Wade Gustafson, please."

"So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it."

"[repeated line] Mind if I sit down? I'm carrying quite a load here."

"[after her husband, Norm, kisses her] Ya got Arby's all over me."

"[on the phone] Oh my. Where? Yeah? Aw geez. Okay, there in a jif. Real good, then."

"[To Escobar, mocking him] Come on, Lou, you're in charge. Make a decision."

"[To Lt. Lou Escobar] You're dumber than you think I think you are."