The Green Mile (1999) - Quotes

Paul: What did you just do to me?

John Coffey: [falls asleep on his bed] I helped it. Didn't I help it? I just took it back, is all. Awful tired now, boss... dog-tired.

Paul: [After John enters his cell for the first time; [help] Percy, they're moving house in the infirmary. Why don't you go see if they could use some ]?

Percy Wetmore: Well, they got all the men they need.

Paul: Why don't you just go and make sure?

Percy: Uh-uh.

Paul: [Percy nods and walks down the Mile; Del grins at him as he walks by, so Percy smacks Del's fingers with a nightstick and makes Del scream in pain] I don't care where you go, Percy, just as long as it's not here at this very moment.

Eduard Delacroix: [crying; [God] ], he busted my finger!

Percy: I wiped that grin off your shit-poke face, didn't I?!

Paul: [Percy looks at him, nods and leaves] Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!

Brutal: Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die in the electric chair by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before sentence is carried out?

Toot-Toot: [[Mae West; cackles] Yeah. I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, and I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have ] sit on my face cause I'm one horny motherfucker!

Paul: Your name is John Coffey?

John Coffey: [[drink] Yes, sir, boss. Like the ], only not spelled the same.

Paul: Oh, you can spell, can you?

John Coffey: [[name] Just my ], boss. J-O...

Old Woman: It's interesting.

Old Man: Interesting"? A bunch of inbred trailer trash? All they ever talk about is fucking.

Percy Wetmore: [[Hell] Adios, Chief. Drop us a card from ]. Let us know if it's hot enough.

Percy Wetmore: Dead man walking, we got a dead man walking here.

William "Wild Bill" Wharton: You can come in here on your legs, but you'll go out on your backs. Billy the Kid gonna guarantee ya that.

William "Wild Bill" Wharton: All I wanted me was a little corn bread, you motherfuckers! All I wanted me was a little corn bread!

William "Wild Bill" Wharton: Barbecue! Me and you! Stinky-pinky, Pew-Pew-Pew! Weren't Billy, Jilly, Hilly, or Pa! It was a French-fried Cajun named Delacroix! WOO!

John Coffey: [[Heaven] (singing quietly) ] … I'm in heaven … heaven …

John Coffey: [[love; [day; [world] He killed them with their ]. That's how it is every ], all over the ].

John Coffey: [[sparrow; [rain; [pain; [feel; [hear; [world; [day; [all; [time; [understand] I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein on the road, lonely as a ] in the ]. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the ] I ] and ] in the ] every ]. There's too much of it — it's like pieces of glass in my head, ] the ]. Can you ]?

John Coffey: [[Fred Astaire; [Ginger Rogers; [w:Top Hat|Top Hat] * Entranced, watching ] and ] dancing "Cheek to Cheek" in ].

John Coffey: [[angels; [heaven] Why, they's ]. Angels, just like up in ].

John Coffey: You be still, now ... you be so quiet and so still.

John Coffey: I tried to take it back, but it was too late. (crying)

John Coffey: [[drink] John Coffey, just like the ], only not spelled the same.

Paul Edgecomb: [[judgement; [God; [miracles; [job] On the day of my ], when I stand before ], and he asks me why... did I... did I kill one of his true... ]... what am I going to say? That it was my ]? It was my job...

Paul Edgecomb: I think about all of us. Walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time.

Paul Edgecomb: [[Time; [end; [darkness] ] takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the ] there is only ]. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Paul Edgecomb: [[God] We each owe a death — there are no exceptions. But, oh ], sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.

Paul Edgecomb: [[curse; [punishment; [lightning; [miracle; [God; [death; [truth] Elaine — you'll die, too. And my ] is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement, you see — it's my ] for lettin John Coffey ride the ]. For killing a ] of ]. You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually; of that, I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for ] long before Death finds me. In ], I wish for it already.

Paul Edgecomb: [[life; [proud; [danger; [hell] I've done some things in my ] I'm not ] of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real ] of ].

Paul Edgecomb: [grabs Percy, who is trying to turn away from the botched execution he caused] You watch, you son of a bitch!

Paul Edgecomb: [as Brutal grabs onto Percy's ears] A big man is ripping your ears off, Percy, I'd do as he says.

Paul Edgecomb: [about Percy; [stupid] The man is mean and careless and ], and that's a bad combination in a place like this. Sooner or later, he's gonna get somebody hurt, or worse.

Paul Edgecomb: [Percy leaves] Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!

Paul Edgecomb: What happens on the Mile, stays on the Mile. Always has.

Paul Edgecomb: [[death; [life] I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. Usually, ] row was called "the last mile"; we called ours "the Green Mile" — the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair — "Old Sparky," we called it. Oh, I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but 1935 — that takes the prize. That year, I had the worst urinary infection of my ], and that was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls.