Quotes

Lewis: Can that chubby boy handle himself?

Ed: Bobby? He's rather well thought of in his field, Lewis.

Lewis: Insurance? I never been insured in my life. There's no risk.

Bobby: Mister, I love the way you wear that hat.

Old man: [after taking off his hat and examining it] You don't know nothin'.

Lewis: Your name Griner?

First Griner: What you wanna know for?

Lewis: I was wondering if you and your brother could take a couple of trucks down to Aintry for us. We'll be there about Sunday noon.

First Griner: Drive 'em down there for what?

Lewis: Me and my buddy here are taking a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee. We'd like our cars to be down in Aintry when we get there. Be there about Sunday noon.

First Griner: [sarcastically] Canoe trip?

Lewis: That's right, a canoe trip.

First Griner: What the hell you wanna go fuck around with that river for?

Lewis: Because it's there.

First Griner: It's there all right. You get in there and can't get out, you gonna wish it wasn't.

Ed: [to Lewis, whispering] Look, Lewis, let's go back to town and, ah... play golf.

Lewis: [ignoring Ed] I'll give you thirty dollars to take those cars down to Aintry.

First Griner: I'll take fifty.

Lewis: Fifty, my ass.

Ed: Lewis, don't play games with these people!

First Griner: Whud you say?

Lewis: I said "fifty, my ass."

Ed: [whispering urgently] Lewis!

First Griner: I'll do it for forty.

Lewis: Mm-hmm...

[to Ed]

Lewis: You good for ten?

Ed: Sure.

Mountain Man: Now let's you just drop them pants.

[Lewis and Ed take a wrong turn looking for the river]

First Griner: Where you goin' city boy?

Lewis: We'll find it. We'll find it.

Second Griner: It ain't nothin' but the biggest fuckin' river in the state.

Drew: I'm a-goin' with you, Ed, and not with Mister Lewis Medlock, 'cause I done seen how he drives these country roads he don't know nothin' 'bout.

Bobby: Hey, what happens if we flip this thing over?

Lewis: Now that you brought that up, hang onto your paddle. And if you hit any rocks, don't hit 'em with your head.

Sherrif Bullard: Don't ever do nothin' like this again. Don't come back up here.

Bobby: You don't have to worry about that, Sheriff.

Drew: Goddamn, you play a mean banjo.

Mountain Man: What do you want to do now?

Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth ain't he?

Mountain Man: That's the truth

Toothless Man: [to Ed] You gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.

Taxi Driver: Right there's the town hall. Right over there's the old fire station. Played a lot of checkers over there, sure did. All this land's gonna be covered with water - best thing ever happened to this town.

[a truck in front of the cab is carrying a small church building on a flatbed trailer]

Taxi Driver: We might have to wait a minute for the church to get out the way.

Mountain Man: Looks like we got us a sow here instead of a boar.

[preparing to bury Drew in the river]

Ed: Drew was a... a good husband to his wife Linda, and... you were a wonderful father to your boys, Drew... Jimmy and Billy Ray. And if we come through this, I promise to do all I can for 'em.

[pause]

Ed: He was the best of us.

Lewis: [Ed and Lewis are driving to find the river and come to a dead end] Well, we fucked up.

[Ed just killed a man believed to be the second rapist]

Bobby: That's him? I mean... he wasn't just some guy out hunting, was it?

Ed: [shouts] You tell me!

[last lines]

Ed: [waking from a nightmare] No!

Martha: Ed? What's the matter?... It's all right... it's all right... shhh... go to sleep... go to sleep...

Bobby: Which way we goin', this way or that way?

Lewis: I think downstream would be a good idea.

Bobby: [indicating a junk car by a rural gas station] That's my '51 Dodge. No, that's my car! That's my car! Whooee! All my youth and passion... spent in that back seat. It's all gone, you see? It's all gone - rust and dust.

Bobby: [about Drew] I really didn't know him.

Bobby: There's no end to it.