"I'm of legal age for whiskey, voting and loving. Now the next election is two years away, and my love life ain't getting much better, so how about some of that one-hundred-percent!"

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

"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 lot can happen in the middle of nowhere."

"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."

"Nobody sleeps naked in this house boy!"

"Patrick McAreavy as Whitetail Ferguson"

"M. Emmet Walsh as Machine Shop Ear-Bender"

"Charles "Lew" Smith as Whitey (convenience store clerk)"

"Henry M. Kendrick as Older FBI Agent"

"Warren Keith as Younger FBI Agent"

"Lynne Dumin Kitei as Florence Arizona"

"T.J. Kuhn as Nathan Jr."

"Randall "Tex" Cobb as Leonard Smalls (Lone Biker of the Apocalypse)"

"Frances McDormand as Dot"