Chris CooperQuotes

Dickie Pilager: [Conducting a press conference.] In the case of capital offenses I am absolutely in favor of the death penalty. You hear stories about frontier justice ... you can bet that the wrongdoers, the folks who couldn't play by the rules, had some respect for that. And there was no ... it didn't cost the taxpayer ... if they had had taxpayers back then ... those were the good old days, I suppose ... and all you needed was a good strong rope and a tree to hang it from!

Reporter 1: So you'll be proposing tougher criminal legis ...

Dickie Pilager: My message to criminals is this: straighten up or get out. There's no place for you in our state. You do the crime, and by God, you're gonna have to face your lumps.

Nora Allardyce: But the majority of those serving time for drug possession are ...

Dickie Pilager: You want to change the behavior? Stiffen the consequences!

Nora Allardyce: There have been reports, Mr. Pilager, that before you became involved in politics you had considerable experience with ...

Dickie Pilager: Look, if you're up in a helicopter, airplane, something that flies, you don't want your pilot intoxicated with drugs, do you? And it's that way with our schoolchildren ... Junior can't read if he's high on crack. Yeah, air is thin enough up here!

Dickie Pilager: [points to another reporter] Yes?

Dickie Pilager: [Conducting an "improptu" press conference on his front porch.] I repeat I'm not raising taxes. We can't just keep throwing the taxpayers hard-earned money at these perceived ... and some of them I admit are real ... so-called social problems. We have to get our priorities straight. Education is a priority. Affordable housing for our working people is a priority. Health care is a priority. Our economy is a priority. The environmental ... the whole environmental ... arena ... that's a big priority. Building new roads and maintaining the present ... keeping the infrastructure in place, where it belongs, that's a priority.

Nora Allardyce: What isn't a priority?

Dickie Pilager: What's not a priority ... is those matters which are of less of a ... not that they're not important but ... if you're going to have a front burner, which is where you want your priorities, it's like ... cooking ... there needs to be something sitting on the back one. And that's where your other organizations, your church people and your ... organizations formed to help these things, will be happy to pitch in if only government would get out of their way.

C. E. Lively: [[w:The Iron Heel|The Iron Heel] Who wrote ]?

Joe Kenehan: [[Jack London] ].

Sephus: [[Joe Hill] Where's ] buried at?

Joe Kenehan: All over the world. They scattered his ashes.

C. E. Lively: Which eye is Big Bill Haywood missing?

Joe Kenehan: His right one.

C. E. Lively: How'd Frank Little die?

Joe Kenehan: Butte, Montana ... they hung him from a railroad trestle.

Joe Kenehan: When do we get to Matewan?

Train conductor: You don't want to go there, mister. Ain't nothing but crazy people.

Joe Kenehan: Fellas, we’re in a hole full of coal gas here. The tiniest spark at the wrong time is going to be the end of us. So we got to pick away at this situation, slow and careful. We got to organize and build support. We got to work together. Together! Till they can’t get their coal out of the ground without us cause we’re a union! Cause we’re the workers damn it and we take care of each other!

Joe Kenehan: You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you got to know about the enemy.

Ally: Sorry, I fell asleep.

Neil Craig: Asleep. Where?

Ally: (sigh) my phone died. Hey that’s mine! That’s from my desk.

Neil Craig: I was trying to find some information.

Ally: Oh, What I’m now one of yours suspects?

Neil Craig: When you act like one.

Ally: Oh for God’s sake.

Neil Craig: Don’t use that tone with me, Ally! I smell alcohol.

Ally: Yeah, so do I.

Neil Craig: That supposed to mean something? What’s going on here, Ally? Trying to tell me something with this? You are all grown up now?

Ally: Maybe it’s time you get use to it dad, before you give yourself a heart attack.

Neil Craig: Who is the guy?

Ally: What makes you think there is a guy?

Neil Craig: Yeah, he is a real prince. He gets you drunk. Send you home smelling like a brewery , smelling like god knows what. You sure can pick em!

Ally: Yeah, I take after my mother.

Ally: I’m not a child!

Neil Craig: In this house, you are!

Ally: I’m going out.

Neil Craig: Who’re you going with?

Ally: A boy from school.

Neil Craig: Okay.

Ally: I wasn't asking for permission.

Neil Craig: I know that, just be careful.

Neil Craig: She’s supposed to be back. She is not back.

Ricky: [''Laughs''] Oh, Dad, you don't really think that me and Mr. Burnham were...

Colonel Fitts: [[w:fellatio|become a cock-sucker!] Don't you laugh at me. Now, I will not sit back and watch my only son ]

Ricky: Jesus, what is it with you?

Colonel Fitts: I swear to God, I will throw you out of the house and never look at you again!

Ricky: You mean that?

Colonel Fitts: You're damn straight I do. I'd rather you were dead than be a fuckin faggot.

Ricky: You're right, I suck dick for money.

Colonel Fitts: Boy, don't start.

Ricky Fitts: Two thousand dollars, I'm that good.

Colonel Fitts: Get out.

Ricky: And you should see me fuck. I'm the best piece of ass in three states.

Colonel Fitts: [''Hits Ricky''] Get out! I don't ever want to see you again.

Ricky: What a sad old man you are.

John Hickam: [derisively] Hey, hey, don't trouble yourself, Homer. You got more important things to worry about. Just go look for your suitcase.

Jim Hickam: Forget about it, Homer.

Homer Hickam: [furiously goes back into house and angrily confronts his father] Shut up, Jim! Listen, I'm sorry about what's going on here but it isn't my fault! What do you want from me anyway?

John: Better watch yourself, Homer.

Homer: If I win at Indianapolis, maybe I can go to college, maybe even get a job at Cape Canaveral! There's nothing here for me! The town is dying, even the mine is dying...EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT BUT YOU!

John: [incensed] You want to get out so bad, then go. Go!

Homer: Yeah, I'll go! Yeah, I'll go!

John: GO! GO!

Homer: [angrily gets out and violently slams door behind him] And I'll be gone forever! I won't even look back!!!!

Lieutenant Gerke: I've seen it first-hand; the guy's nuttier than squirrel turds!

Jerry Vogel: Your mom and I hardly knew each other when she got pregnant. But we were babies, huh?

Lloyd Vogel: Don't talk about her.

Jerry Vogel: Oh, whoa, wait a minute. You don't know the whole story. Your mom was not the saint...

Lloyd Vogel: [suddenly turns around and punches Jerry; Todd rushes in and attempts to restrain Lloyd] DON'T TALK ABOUT MY MOM!!!!

Lorraine Vogel: [watching her brother yell at Jerry] What are you doing?

Lloyd Vogel: [shoves Todd into Lorraine, spilling wine all over her dress] GET OFF ME!!!

Wedding Guest: [punches Lloyd against the wall] Hey!

Todd: Come on, what are you doing? Come on.

Lorraine Vogel: [shocked and furious with Lloyd for ruining her wedding dress; Andrea looks at Lloyd as he facepalms his injury] What the hell?!

Tex Richman: [Angrily; The Muppets Gasp] You artists formerly known as the Muppets are standing on private property--My private property! And I'm telling you to leave, NOW GO! ALL OF YOU!

Kermit: [Sadly; As The Muppets Slowly Walk Away, Tex Richman Sighs In Disbelief] He's right, everybody. He won. We gotta go.

Tex Richman: [Uncle Deadly grabs the boltcutters to stop Tex] To the end of the Muppets! Deadly! What are you doing?!

Uncle Deadly: Enough! Just because I have a terrifying name, and an evil English accent, does not preclude the fact that in my heart, I am a Muppet, not a Moopet! Looks like it's I who will have the last laugh!

Tex Richman: What does that mean?!

Uncle Deadly: [Tex falls off the roof and lands on the ground with a thud; he laughs maniacally] It's an idiom, you idiot! Because you cannot laugh! Ha ha! Oopsie!

Tex Richman: Deadly...

Uncle Deadly: Now that's a maniacal laugh for you!

Col. Harry Burwell: [referring to Gabriel, who was just killed by Tavington] I'll help you bury him.

Benjamin Martin: I'll bury him.

Col. Harry Burwell: My wife Alexandria is with child, my first. I fight for that child. Benjamin, nothing will replace your sons, but if you come with us you can justify their sacrifice.

Benjamin Martin: [voice trails off] Why?… Why do men feel they can justify death? Is it arrogance or… I have long feared, that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.

Col. Harry Burwell: [[w:Nathanael Greene|Greene; [w:Daniel Morgan|Dan Morgan] Benjamin, we have a chance. ] and ] are down from Virginia. If we win this next battle, victory in the war is within our grasp.

Benjamin Martin: Go then, seek your victory. I'm a small issue to it.

Col. Harry Burwell: You're wrong, Benjamin. You matter to your men, and to others as well. Your victories and... and your losses, are shared by more than you know. Stay with us. Stay the course!

Benjamin Martin: I have run my course.

Dean Whiting: [to Prince Meshal Al-Subaai] Are you a king? Can you tell me what you want?

Jimmy Pope: Dig six feet, find three bodies. But dig twelve feet, you find forty.

Max Woodman: I want pig bacon!

Mussawi: Rumors of Bob, but never Bob.

Red: It's not my fault. Not this time.

Tom Smith: I told you, look out for Rosemont!

Red: I thought I had it!

Tom Smith: You stopped ridin him!

Red: I couldn't see him!

Tom Smith: What the hell are you talking about? He was flyin up your tail!

Red: Yeah, well, I can't...

Tom Smith: What?

Red: ...SEE out there!

Red: [entering Samuel Riddle's stables; [Jesus; [Christ] ] ], I want to be a horse.

Tom Smith: You're almost big enough.

Tom Smith: [[life] You don't throw a whole ] away just cause he's banged up a little bit.

Tom Smith: Every horse is good for somethin'.

Doug MacRay: I'm thinking about um... taking a trip. Going dark for a minute.

Stephen MacRay: Takin heat?

Doug MacRay: Nah, just... Makin a change.

Stephen MacRay: Yeah, don't tell me. "Makin a change." Either you got heat or you don't. I heard a bread truck got dropped.

Doug MacRay: Oh, yeah? I didn't hear about it.

Stephen MacRay: Okay.

Police Guard: You got five minutes! Five minutes!

Doug MacRay: Let me ask you something. In case I don't see you again. How come you never... How come you never looked for her?

Stephen MacRay: Uhhhhh... Looked for who?

Doug MacRay: [short pause] For Ma. For my mother. How come you never looked for her? How come you never tried to call nobody or look for her, or ask around?

Stephen MacRay: [sighs] Look, when your mother left, you cried so hard you were throwin up. All over parlor. So I told you if you looked around you might find her. Just to give you an activity. I didn't think you'd carry it like a fuckin disease. What, you wanna think she was an angel? Go ahead. But look out your front door. How many 22 year old girls are out there, they're fuckin around with kids they don't want... and... you know... no sense in their heads. And your mother wasn't no different. That's the hard truth. I made my peace with it. You make yours. I didn't look for her because there was nothin to find. Look, I gotta die five times before I get outta here. But, I'll see you again. This side or the other.

John Laroche: Bad things happen, darkness descends.

John Laroche: By simply doing what they are designed to do something large and magnificient happens. In this sense they show us how to live. How the only barometer you have is your heart. How when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.

John Laroche: I'm probably the smartest person I know.

John Laroche: Who's gonna play me? I think I should play me.

Alexander Conklin: [to Bourne] Kill Wombosi? Hell, we can do that any time we want. I can send Nicky to do that, for Christ's sake! Mr. Wombosi was supposed to be dead three weeks ago. He was supposed to have died in a way where the only possible explanation was that he'd been murdered by a member of his own entourage! I don't send you to kill! I send you to be invisible. I send you because you don't exist.

Alexander Conklin: You're U.S. Government property! You're a malfunctioning, 30-million-dollar weapon! You're a total goddamn catastrophe and by God, if it kills me, you're gonna tell me how this happened.

Alexander Conklin: It only goes two ways. Either you come in and let us make this right... or we'll keep going until we're satisfied.

Alexander Conklin: You're worried about a budget meeting? We don't take care of this, we don't make it to the men's room. Is that clear enough for you? We will burn for this. We will both of us burn.

Alexander Conklin: Great police work. Really brilliant. Why don't they just hang out a banner that says "Don't come back"? Jesus Christ. What is the French word for "stakeout"?

Alexander Conklin: [about Marie] I want to know every place she's slept in the past six years.