Cannonball! (1976)

Gerrit Graham: Perman Waters

Quotes 

• Perman Waters : [Redman has stopped at a roadside grocery store for beer and Perman and Sharma are in the car]  Hey, now, Ma, I ain't kidding. I think we ought to cut this crazy sucker loose. I mean, I can't believe you let him stop for more beer. I mean, he's already driving like a scalding dog.

  Sharma Capri : Never mind. I got a better chance of handling him when he's pie-eyed. The front seat don't know it, but the back is still pulling the strings.

  Perman Waters : Well, I hope so.

  [He notices Coy pulling into the store and going inside] 

  Perman Waters : Oh, god, there's trouble.

• Sharma Capri : [Perman is sitting on the curb strumming his guitar aimlessly]  You're going to mess up your suit, sitting on the curb like that.

  Perman Waters : Well, it don't make no difference. I ain't doing no TV spot, tonight.

  Sharma Capri : When this is all over, boy, you're going to be turning down offers right and left. You're going to be a star!

  Perman Waters : [sarcastic]  Uh-huh. Hillbilly Hemp and the rest of them dead old boys.

  Sharma Capri : I busted my hump setting up this ride with Cade Redman and the least you can do is act a little grateful.

  Perman Waters : [Redman's Dodge Charger roars around a corner and stops]  Holy Mother of Pearl! You mean, we're going all the way to New York in this cute-ass Cadillac?

• Cade Redman : [angry he can't hear over the CB radio because of Perman's singing]  Hey, possum breath, I'm trying to find out about the goddamn red Trans Am! I can't hear anything but you bellowing like a dying cat in a windstorm! Now, boy, you either shut up or I'm gonna tear your tongue out and treat it like a barber pole.

  Perman Waters : [to his listeners]  Well, I'm very sorry about all that static in the background, so why don't you good people just turn your crystal sets up and we'll try it again a little louder?

  [He starts singing again and Redman angrily throws the guitar out the window, much to the horror of Perman and Sharma] 

  Cade Redman : That's for throwing the damn gun out the window!

  Perman Waters : I'm gonna have to hurt you, now!

  Sharma Capri : And I'm going to help him, too!

  Cade Redman : Shit. Both of you couldn't wake me up if I was asleep.