Memorable Quotes from Joe Don Baker
6 quotesTension Between Characters Escalates in Confrontation
Claude Kersek
You know, I've been in a real bad mood lately. Shame, ain't it? You know what you can do to brighten my mood?
Max Cady
No.
Claude Kersek
Get the hell out of here. I don't mean just this whole town, I mean the whole goddamned state. I don't wanna see you, I don't wanna hear you, and I don't wanna smell you. Now leave.
Max Cady
Now, I like to-- Are you my friend?
Claude Kersek
No, I'm not your friend.
Max Cady
Oh, cause I thought maybe you were my friend, because I like to plan my comings and goings with friends. But if you're not my friend and you're planning my comings and goings, I'd call that presumptuous. In fact, I'd call it downright rude.
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A Casual Exchange Between Bond and Wade
Bond
In London, April's a spring month.
Jack Wade
Oh yeah? And what are you, the weatherman? I mean, for crying out loud... another stiff-ass Brit, with your secret codes and your passwords. One of these days you guys are gonna learn just to drop it. C'mon, my car's over there.
Bond
After you.
Wade
Thank you.
Bond
Like you said, "Drop it".
Wade
All right, in London April is a spring month, whereas in St. Petersburg we're freezing our butts off. Is that close enough for government work?
Bond
No. Show me the rose.
Wade
Please, no. Alright, alright, alright.
[Bond shoves his gun into Wade; unbuckles his pants and shows him his rose tattoo with the name "Muffy"]
Bond
Muffy?
Wade
Third wife. Jack Wade, CIA.
[sticks out his hand]
Bond
James Bond, stiff-ass Brit.
[shaking Wade's hand]
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Neutrality in Unofficial Situations
Jack Wade
Yo, Jimbo!
James Bond
Wade? What the hell are you doing here?
Wade
Jimbo, you know the world's my office. This way. You know, officially, Uncle Sam's completely neutral in this turkey shoot.
[Leads Bond off the airstrip]
Bond
And unofficially?
Wade
We have no interest in seeing World War III, unless we start it.
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The Tradition of Savoring Fear in the South
Claude Kersek
No, you're scared. But that's okay. I want you to savor that fear. The South evolved in fear: fear of the Indian, fear of the slave, fear of the damn Union. The South has a fine tradition of savoring fear.
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A Missed Opportunity for Wealth and Survival
Brad Whitaker
That's too bad, Bond. You could've been a live rich man, instead of a poor dead one.
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Perspectives on Leadership and Warfare
Brad Whitaker
How do you like my personal pantheon of great commanders?
[''Referring to his life-size statues of famous military commanders'']
Leonid Pushkin
Butchers.
Whitaker
Surgeons. They cut away society's dead flesh.
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