Ray McKinnon Quotes - Best Lines & Interviews

Memorable Quotes from Ray McKinnon

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Mud

The Value of Hard Work and Love

Senior You know I love you?

Ellis Yessir. I know.

Senior I work you hard cause life is work. You know that?

Ellis Yessir.

Senior Your Mamma's been talkin bout movin in town.

Ellis What's that mean?

Senior She seems set on it. Wants to separate. She may ask me for a divorce.

Ellis What's that mean for me?

[pause]

Senior It means enjoy the river son. Enjoy it while you live on it, cause this way a life isn't long for this world. Game and Fish’s bout made certain of that.

Ellis But you and me can still live out here. Game and Fish can't take your boat. Not while you’re still in it.

Senior The houseboat's in your mother's name. Her daddy give it to her not me. If she wants to leave it, Game and Fish has ever right to take this boat apart board by board.

Ellis But that ain't right. You work outta here. We got the ice machine, the traps. What are we supposed to do?

Senior Like I said, this is your mother's business.

Ellis I ain't no townie. I ain't livin like that.

Senior I've let you down. A man should be in charge of his own affairs, but I haven't worked it like that.

[pause]

Ellis But ya'll are married. Ya'll are s'posed to love each other.

Senior I don't know about that anymore.

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Mud

The Complexity of Love and Trust

Senior You not talkin’ to me?

Ellis I’m talkin’. I’m talkin’ to both of you. That’s all ya’ll want to do is talk.

Senior Well, that’s your mother. Would rather tongue lash a problem than step up and handle it. You’ll see one day. Women are tough. They’ll set you up for things. You can’t trust love, Ellis. If you’re not careful, it’ll run out on you. You just gotta pick a woman and roll the dice. Hope you don’t wake up in fifteen years hatin’ each other.

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Mud

Accusations of Theft Among Friends

Senior J.J. Crawford said a boat motor went missin’ from his stock yard. Said his daughter saw this one and his friend haulin’ it off. Now you tell me right now, did you steal that motor?

Ellis We didn’t steal it.

Senior Lie to me again.

Ellis We thought it was junk. We didn’t think it was worth anything.

Mary Lee Ellis?

Senior You tell me I raised a thief?

Ellis I’m not a thief.

Senior You take property that’s not yours. Property that belongs to another man. That junk is his livelihood. I’m ashamed of you.

Mary Lee Senior.

Senior Shut your mouth. You think you can take things and not have him see it? Neither one of you has any respect for a man’s livelihood. A life that puts clothes on your back and food in your stomach.

[to Mary Lee]

Mary Lee Don’t you blame this on me. One doesn’t have a thing to do with the other and you know it.

Senior Don’t tell me what I know. If you can steal a man’s life out from under him in front of your son and think he won’t take a lesson from it than you’re even dumber than you look.

Ellis Stop it dad.

Senior She’s raisin’ you a snake like herself, and you can curl up with her ‘fore I give a damn. You just remember this when you watch them rip this house apart board by board. You hear me?!

Mary Lee You’re a man who’s never had the strength to support his own life. I never asked you for a thing, and I’ve never took a thing from you that I couldn’t provide for on my own. If they do tear my home apart the only joy I’ll have in my heart is knowin’ that they’ll be tearing you out of my life for good. Ellis. You’ll return that motor from where you found it and you’ll apologize in person to the man you took it from. I won’t hear about anything like this again.

Ellis I can’t take that motor back. But I’ll pay him for it. I’ll pay him what he wants for it.

Senior I don’t care what you do Ellis.

Ford v Ferrari

A Conversation About Stopwatches and Origins

Phil Remington Nice stopwatch.

Carroll Shelby Want one? They're Italian.