Memorable Quotes from Bo Hopkins
4 quotesConsequences of Choices in Turbulent Times
Tex
Boy oh boy, you picked a bad time to fly, Billy. They're guerrillas all over the place blowing up planes and all. They hit four planes in four days. But I guess you young people don't read the news anymore. That, and with our people back home kicking up a shitstorm about the flow of heroin from Turkey...
Billy Hayes
I didn't have heroin. It was just a little hashish.
Tex
That doesn't matter. A drug's a drug.
Billy Hayes
It was only two kilos.
Tex
It doesn't matter if it was two kilos or 200 kilos. The Turks love catching foreigners. They want to show the rest of the world that they're fighting the drug trade.
Billy Hayes
Who are you? What's your name?
Tex
That's not important.
Billy Hayes
Are you with the American consulate here in Istanbul?
Tex
Something like that.
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Confronting Family and Consequences of Choices
Tex
Do you have a family back home?
Billy Hayes
Yeah, a mother, father, sister and brother living in Babylon, Long Island.
Tex
It's gonna be tough for them. You'll have to tell them about what you're in sooner or later. Say, how much did you pay this joker? The cab driver for the hash you bought?
Billy Hayes
$200. It was my last 200.
Tex
How much did you expect to make if you had brought that stuff back to the USA?
Billy Hayes
I was only gonna share it or sell some of it to by friends. I'm not a pusher. Honest.
Tex
Yeah, right. Selling dope always beats working.
[scoffs]
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The Burden of Secrets in Relationships
Tex
You got a girlfriend, Billy?
Billy Hayes
Yeah. She was on the plane.
Billy Hayes
She didn't know anything about it. I didn't want her to.
Tex
Lucky girl.
Billy Hayes
She used to say I was the lucky one.
Tex
Let's hope you're right, Billy. Let's hope you're right.
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Threatening Warning from Tex to Billy
Tex
You seem like a nice enough kid to me, Billy, but you try it and I'll blow your fuckin brains out.
[Tex has a large revolver pointed at Billy whom he just recaptured trying to escape]
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