No Country for Old Men (2007)

Javier Bardem: Anton Chigurh

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• Anton Chigurh : What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Sir?

  Anton Chigurh : The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.

  Gas Station Proprietor : I don't know. I couldn't say.

  [Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand] 

  Anton Chigurh : Call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Call it?

  Anton Chigurh : Yes.

  Gas Station Proprietor : For what?

  Anton Chigurh : Just call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.

  Anton Chigurh : You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.

  Gas Station Proprietor : I didn't put nothin' up.

  Anton Chigurh : Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?

  Gas Station Proprietor : No.

  Anton Chigurh : 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Look, I need to know what I stand to win.

  Anton Chigurh : Everything.

  Gas Station Proprietor : How's that?

  Anton Chigurh : You stand to win everything. Call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Alright. Heads then.

  [Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads] 

  Anton Chigurh : Well done.

  [the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out] 

  Anton Chigurh : Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Where do you want me to put it?

  Anton Chigurh : Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.

  [Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out] 

• Carla Jean Moss : You don't have to do this.

  Anton Chigurh : [smiles]  People always say the same thing.

  Carla Jean Moss : What do they say?

  Anton Chigurh : They say, "You don't have to do this."

  Carla Jean Moss : You don't.

  Anton Chigurh : Okay.

  [Chigurh flips a coin and covers it with his hand] 

  Anton Chigurh : This is the best I can do. Call it.

  Carla Jean Moss : I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.

  Anton Chigurh : Call it.

  Carla Jean Moss : No. I ain't gonna call it.

  Anton Chigurh : Call it.

  Carla Jean Moss : The coin don't have no say. It's just you.

  Anton Chigurh : Well, I got here the same way the coin did.

• Anton Chigurh : [indicating bag of cashews]  How much?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Sixty-nine cent.

  Anton Chigurh : This. And the gas.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Y'all gettin' any rain up your way?

  Anton Chigurh : What way would that be?

  Gas Station Proprietor : I seen you was from Dallas.

  Anton Chigurh : What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

  Gas Station Proprietor : I didn't mean nothin' by it.

  Anton Chigurh : Didn't mean nothin'.

  Gas Station Proprietor : I was just passin' the time. If you don't wanna accept that I don't know what else to do for you. Will there be something else?

  Anton Chigurh : I don't know. Will there?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Is somethin' wrong?

  Anton Chigurh : With what?

  Gas Station Proprietor : With anything?

  Anton Chigurh : Is that what you're asking me? Is there something wrong with anything?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Will there be anything else?

  Anton Chigurh : You already asked me that.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Well... I need to see about closin'.

  Anton Chigurh : See about closing.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Yessir.

  Anton Chigurh : What time do you close?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Now. We close now.

  Anton Chigurh : Now is not a time. What time do you close?

• Llewelyn Moss : [talking over phone]  Hello?

  Anton Chigurh : Yes?

  Llewelyn Moss : Is, uh, Carson Wells there?

  Anton Chigurh : Not in the sense that you mean. You need to come see me.

  Llewelyn Moss : Who is this?

  Anton Chigurh : You know who it is. You need to talk to me.

  Llewelyn Moss : I don't need to talk to you.

  Anton Chigurh : I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?

  Llewelyn Moss : Why would I care where you're going?

  Anton Chigurh : I know where you are.

  Llewelyn Moss : Yeah? Where am I?

  Anton Chigurh : You're in the hospital across the river, but that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going?

  Llewelyn Moss : [blood flows on the floor, and so Chigurh lifts his feet and rests them on the bed]  Yeah, I know where you're going.

  Anton Chigurh : Alright.

  Llewelyn Moss : You know she won't be there.

  Anton Chigurh : It doesn't make any difference where she is.

  Llewelyn Moss : So what are you going up there for?

  Anton Chigurh : You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?

  Llewelyn Moss : Nope.

  Anton Chigurh : I think you do. So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.

• Anton Chigurh : And you know what's going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.

  Carson Wells : You go to hell.

  Anton Chigurh : [Chuckles]  Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

  Carson Wells : Do you have any idea how crazy you are?

  Anton Chigurh : You mean the nature of this conversation?

  Carson Wells : I mean the nature of you.

• Anton Chigurh : Would you hold still, please, sir?

• Anton Chigurh : I'm looking for Llewelyn Moss.

  Desert Aire Manager : Did you go up to his trailer?

  Anton Chigurh : Yes, I did.

  Desert Aire Manager : Well, I'd say he's at work. Do you want to leave a message?

  Anton Chigurh : Where does he work?

  Desert Aire Manager : I can't say.

  Anton Chigurh : Where does he work?

  Desert Aire Manager : Sir, I ain't at liberty to give out no information about our residents.

  Anton Chigurh : Where does he work?

  Desert Aire Manager : Did you not hear me? We can't give out no information.

• [Anton has just shot the Man who hires Wells in the throat, and is standing over his body] 

  [to Nervous Accountant] 

  Anton Chigurh : Who are you?

  Nervous Accountant : Me?

  Anton Chigurh : Yes.

  Nervous Accountant : Nobody... accounting.

  Anton Chigurh : He gave the Mexicans a receiver.

  [Anton sighs] 

  Nervous Accountant : He feels... he felt that the more people looking... .

  [cut-off by Anton] 

  Anton Chigurh : That's foolish. You pick the one right tool.

  Nervous Accountant : I see. Are you going to shoot me?

  Anton Chigurh : That depends. Do you see me?

• Boy on Bike #2 : Mister? You got a bone stickin' out of your arm.

  Anton Chigurh : Let me just sit here a minute.

• Carla Jean Moss : I ain't got the money. What little I had is long gone, and there's bills aplenty to pay yet. I buried my mother today. Ain't pay for that neither.

  Anton Chigurh : I wouldn't worry about it.

  Carla Jean Moss : I need to sit down.

• "Managerial" Victim #1 : That's a dead dog.

  Anton Chigurh : Yes it is.

• Mexican in Bathtub : [after Anton Chigurh has killed his comrades; in Spanish]  No me mate.

  Anton Chigurh : How did you find that?

  Mexican in Bathtub : No me mate.

  [Chigurh closes the shower curtains and shoots him dead] 

• Anton Chigurh : Step out of your car, please.

• Carson Wells : I know where the - satchel is.

  Anton Chigurh : If you knew, you would have it with you.

  Carson Wells : I can find it from the river bank. I know where it is.

  Anton Chigurh : I know something better.

  Carson Wells : What's that?

  Anton Chigurh : I know where it's going to be.

• Anton Chigurh : You didn't see me. I was already gone.