Easy Rider (1969)

Luke Askew: Stranger on Highway

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• Billy : Where ya from man?

  Stranger on the Highway : Hard to say.

• Stranger on the Highway : [giving Capt America some LSD]  When you get to the right place, with the right people, quarter this. You know, this could be the right place. The time's running out.

  Billy : Hey, man! Hey! If we're goin', we're goin'! Let's go!

  Captain America : [to the Stranger]  Yeah, I'm, I'm hip about time. But I just gotta go.

• Captain America : Did you ever wanna be somebody else?

  Stranger on the Highway : I'd like to try Porky Pig.

  Captain America : I never wanted to be anybody else.

• Billy : I just want to know where you're from.

  Stranger on the highway : The city.

  Billy : You're from the city?

  Stranger on the highway : It doesn't make any difference what city, all cities are alike. That's why I'm out here now.

  Billy : That's why you're out here now? Why?

  Stranger on the highway : Cause I'm *from* the city; a long *way* from the city, and that's where I wanna be right now.

• Stranger on the Highway : I sometimes say it all day.

  Billy : Really? You say it all day?

  Stranger on the Highway : We don't have much longer, we'll be there soon.

• Captain America : Do they know you in this place?

  Stranger on the Highway : This place we're coming to? Or, the place we're at now?

  Captain America : This place.

• Lisa : I guess nobody else here is interested, but, I would sure like to meet your friend.

  Stranger on the Highway : I bet you'd like to do more than that.

  Lisa : I think he's beautiful.

• Stranger on the Highway : You see, what happened here, these people got here late in the summer, too late to plant. But, the weather was beautiful and it was easy livin' and everything was fine and then came that winter. Now, there were 40 or 50 of 'em here livin' in this one-room place down here. They had nothin' to eat, starvin', out by the side of the road lookin' for dead horses, anything they could get ahold of. Now, there's 18 or 20 of 'em left. And they're city kids. Look at 'em. But, they're gettin' this crop in. They're gonna stay here until it's harvested. That's the whole thing.

  Captain America : You get much rain here, man?

  Stranger on the Highway : I guess we're gonna have to dance for that.