James Garner credited as playing...
Murphy Jones
- Murphy: My friends have overlooked my shortcomings, seen me through some dark days, and brightened up the rest of them. I'm glad to have them; I'm honored to have them; I'm lucky to have them.
- Murphy: You are a miserable little son of a bitch, you know that? I don't know why she took you in the house... I'd bed you down with the dogs! And I'll tell you something else, mister, you may be a lot younger and stronger, but you're about to get your ass kicked from here to the state line... and I'm wearin' the boots that can do it!
- Bobby Jack Moriarty: You're a feisty old booger, aren't ya.
- Murphy: I thought we just settled that!
- Murphy: You want advice? Write Dear Abby. You got problems? Take it your local minister. Your head isn't on straight? The mental health clinic is in the phonebook. I'm not a life guard. I don't put up bail and I'm not your Dutch uncle.
- [Murphy cradles her face in his hands and plants a long passionate kiss]
- Murphy: Now, if you don't know how things are, you're not as smart as I thought you were.
- Murphy: I'm a widower. That's like catnip to a cat, in a town where the ladies outnumber you ten to one.
- [first lines]
- Murphy: [to Emma, who's about to put a flyer on his windshield] Lady, you're covering up my causes.
- Bobby Jack Moriarty: I think you're banging Emma?
- Murphy: Banging? That's an ugly expression for that particular pleasure.
- Bobby Jack Moriarty: How about fucking?
- Murphy: I don't like that one a whole alot better! And, if I was, it would be none of your concern.