Easy Rider Quotes

Wyatt You ever want to be somebody else?

Stranger I'd like to try Porky Pig.

Wyatt I never wanted to be anybody else.

The Stranger You see, what happened here is these people got here late in the summer. Too late to plant. But the weather was beautiful and it was easy livin', and everything was fine. And then came that winter. There were forty or fifty of them here living in this one-room place down here. Nothing to eat - starvin'. Out by the side of the road lookin for dead horses...Anything they could get ahold of. Now there's - there's eighteen or twenty of them left and they're city kids. Look at them. But they're getting this crop in. They're gonna stay here until it's harvested. That's the whole thing.

George Hanson Well, they are people, just like us - from within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved. I mean, they don't have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don't have any leaders, because, I mean, each man is a leader. I mean, each man - because of their technology, they are able to feed, clothe, house, and transport themselves equally - and with no effort...Why don't they reveal themselves to us is because if they did it would cause a general panic. Now, I mean, we still have leaders upon whom we rely for the release of this information. These leaders have decided to repress this information because of the tremendous shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems. Now, the result of this has been that the Venutians have contacted people in all walks of life - all walks of life. Yes. It-it-it would be a devastatin blow to our antiquated systems - so now the Venutians are meeting with people in all walks of life - in an advisory capacity. For once man will have a god-like control over his own destiny. He will have a chance to transcend and to evolve with some equality for all.

George Hanson Here's to the first of the day, fellas. To ol ]. Nik-nik-nik-f-f-f-Indians!

George Hanson That was a UFO, beamin back at ya. Me and Eric Heisman was down in Mexico two weeks ago - we seen forty of em flying in formation. They-they-they've got bases all over the world now, you know. They've been coming here ever since nineteen forty-six - when the scientists first started bouncin radar beams off of the moon. And they have been livin and workin among us in vast quantities ever since. The government knows all about em.

Wyatt It gives you a whole new way of looking at the day.

George Hanson Well, you boys don't look like you're from this part of the country. You're lucky I'm here to see that you don't get into anything...Well, they got this here - see - uh - scissor-happy Beautify America thing goin on around here. They're tryin to make everybody look like ]. They used - uh - rusty razor blades on the last two long-hairs that they brought in here and I wasn't here to protect them. You see - uh - I'm - uh - I'm a lawyer. Done a lot of work for the ]

Deputy What'cha think we ought to do with em?

Cat Man I don't damn know, but I don't think they'll make the parish line.

Rancher Turn that thing off. You're making my horse skittish. ... Sure is a good-looking machine.

Sarah We just can't take anymore, Stranger. Just too many people dropping in. Oh, I'm not talking about you and your friends, you know that. And like the week before, Susan dropped in with twelve people from Easter City. She wanted to take ten pounds of rice with her...Well naturally, we had to say no...So she gets all up tight and she breaks out some hash - and she won't give us any. Oh, and...that's not all. The next morning, they went outside to start their bus and they couldn't get it started...

Joanne Starting brings misfortune. Per-serverance brings danger. Not every demand for change in the existing order should be heeded. On the other hand, repeated and well-founded complaints should not fail to a hearing.

The Devil Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. We've come to play for our dinner. Or should I say, stay for our dinner. Or even slay for our dinner...We've come to drink your wine, taste your food and take pleasure in your women.

Jack We have planted our seeds. We ask that our efforts be worthy to produce simple food for our simple taste. We ask that our efforts be rewarded. And we thank you for the food we eat from other hands - that we may share it with our fellow man and be even more generous when it is from our own. Thank you for a place to make a stand.

Prostitutes I'm going to die. I'm dead...Do you understand?...Oh dear God, please let it be. Please help me conceive a child...I'm right out here out of my head...Please God, let me out of here. I want to get out of here...You know what I mean...You wanted me...You wanted me ugly didn't you? I know you johns - I know you johns.

Wyatt Oh Mother why didn't you tell me? Why didn't anybody tell me anything?...What are you doing to me now?...Shut up!...How could you make me hate you so?...Oh God, I hate you so much.

George Hanson You- you mean marijuana. Lord have mercy, is that what that is? Well, let me see that. Mmmmm-mmm. Mmmm...I-I-I couldn't do that. I mean, I've got enough problems with the - with the booze and all. I mean, uh, I - I can't afford to get hooked...it-it-it leads to harder stuff.

George You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it.

Billy Huh. Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened, man. Hey, we can't even get into like, uh, second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel. You dig? They think we're gonna cut their throat or something, man. They're scared, man.

George Oh, they're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to em.

Billy Hey man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody needs a haircut.

George Oh no. What you represent to them is freedom.

Billy What the hell's wrong with freedom, man? That's what it's all about.

George Oh yeah, that's right, that's what it's all about, all right. But talkin about it and bein it - that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free cause then they're gonna get real busy killin and maimin to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom, but they see a free individual, it's gonna scare em.

Billy Mmmm, well, that don't make em runnin scared.

George No, it makes em dangerous. Nik, nik, nik, nik, nik, nik, nik, nik - Swamp.

Billy We've done it. We've done it. We're rich. Wyatt. Yeah, man. Yeah. Clearly, we did it, man we did it. We did it. Huh. We're rich, man. We're retired in Florida, now, mister. Whew.

Billy Hey man, everything that we ever dreamed of is in that teardrop gas tank - and you got a stranger over there pourin gasoline all over it. Man, all he's got to do is turn and look over into it, man, and he can see that...

Wyatt He won't know what it is, man. He won't know what it is. Don't worry, Billy. Everything's all right.

Billy You're pulling inside, man. You're getting a little distance tonight.

Wyatt Yeah, well, I'm just getting my thing together.

The Stranger The people this place belongs to are buried right under you. You could be a trifle polite...It's a small thing to ask.

Billy You gotta be kidding. I mean, you know who this is, man? This is Captain America. I'm Billy. Hey, we're headliners baby. We played every fair in this part of the country. I mean, for top dollar, too!

Billy I never really thought of myself as a freak, ya know...but I Love to Freak!

Stranger When you get to the right place, with the right people, quarter this. You know, this could be the right place. The time's running out.

Wyatt Yeah, I'm, I'm hip about time. But I just gotta go.

Wyatt No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.

George Hanson You can get out of here, if you haven't killed anybody - at least nobody white.

Deputy What the hell is this? Troublemakers?

Cat Man You name it - I'll throw rocks at it, Sheriff.

Cat Man Check that joker with the long hair.

Deputy I checked him already. Looks like we might have to bring him up to the Hilton before it's all over with.

Cat Man Ha! I think she's cute.

Deputy Isn't she, though. I guess we'd put him in the women's cell, don't you reckon?

Cat Man Oh, I think we ought to put em in a cage and charge a little admission to see em.

George Those are what is known as country witticisms'.

The Stranger It doesn't make any difference what city. All cities are alike. That's why I'm out here now...cause I'm from the city, a long way from the city - and that's where I want to be right now.

George Hanson I must've started off to Mardi Gras six or seven times. Never got further than the state line.

Billy This is nothing but sand, man. They ain't gonna make it, man. They ain't gonna grow anything here.

Wyatt They're gonna make it. Dig, man. They're gonna make it.

George Hanson Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin about it and bein it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, cause then they're gonna get real busy killin and maimin to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare em.

Billy Whew. Man, look, I gotta get out of here, man. Now we - we got things we want to do, man, like - I just - uh - I gotta get out of here, man.

Customer 1 You know, I thought at first that bunch over there, their mothers had maybe been frightened by a bunch of gorillas, but now I think they were caught.

Customer 2 I know one of them's Alley-oop - I think. From the beads on him.

Customer 4 Well, one of them darned sure is not Oola.

Customer 1 Look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.

Customer 2 A gorilla couldn't love that.

Customer 1 Nor could a mother.

Customer 3 I'd love to mate him up with one of those black wenches out there.

Customer 4 Oh, now I don't know about that.

Customer 3 Well, that's about as low as they come. I'll tell ya...Man, they're green.

Customer 4 No, they're not green, they're white.

Customer 3 White? Huh!

Customer 4 Uh-huh.

Customer 3 Man, you're color blind. I just gotta say that...

Customer 1 I don't know. I thought most jails were built for humanity, and that won't quite qualify.

Customer 2 I wonder where they got those wigs from.

Customer 1 They probably grew em. It looks like they're standin in fertilizer. Nothin else would grow on em...

Customer 3 I saw two of them one time. They were just kissin away. Two males. Just think of it.

George Hanson Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights. Corner of Bourbon and Toulouse, New Orleans, Louisiana. Now this is supposed to be the finest whorehouse in the South. These ain't no pork chops. These are U.S. Prime.

Billy I'm sorry about the misunderstanding.

George Hanson There was no misunderstanding. We're all in the same cage here.

Billy You must be some important dude. That treatment--

George Hanson What does he mean "dude"? Dude ranch?

Wyatt Dude" means a nice guy, you know? "Dude" means a regular sort of person.

Wyatt If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

George Hanson Very groovy. Very groovy. See there. I bet nobody ever said that to you.