Road House quotes

31 total quotes

James Dalton
Multiple Characters
Wade Garrett

View Quote I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead.

View Quote Wade: [on the phone] You havin' trouble?
Dalton: Oh, you know — nothing I'm not used to. But it's amazing what you can get used to, huh?
Wade: Yeah, tell me about it. This place has a sign hangin' over the urinal that says, "Don't eat the big white mint".

View Quote Carrie Ann: [chuckling] Oh, my god...
Dalton: What is the joke?
Carrie Ann: Well, there's no joke. I just think I'm looking at a dead man, though.
Dalton: It seems everywhere I go, I hear that same joke.
Carrie Ann: Yeah, well, something tells me you bring it on yourself.

View Quote I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice.

View Quote Pain don't hurt.

View Quote Take the biggest guy in the world, smash his knee and he'll drop like stone.

View Quote Doc: Do you always carry your medical record around with you?
Dalton: Saves time.

View Quote If somebody gets in your face and calls you a ****, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal.

View Quote [admiring Doc] That gal's got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that.

View Quote [Eyeing the sign over the Double Deuce] The Double Douche.

View Quote Red: How long are you gonna be in town?
Dalton: Not very long.
Red: That's what I said 25 years ago.
Dalton: Really? What happened?
Red: I got married to an ugly woman. Don't ever do that. It just takes the energy right out of you. She left me, though. Found somebody even uglier than she was. That's life. Who can explain it?

View Quote Steve: Being called a **** isn't personal?
Dalton: No. It's two nouns combined to elicit a prescribed response.
Steve: What if somebody calls my mama a whore?
Dalton: Is she?

View Quote [after firing a drug-dealing waitress] Anybody else here dealing? I'm telling you straight — it's my way or the highway. So, anybody wants to walk, do it now.

View Quote Jimmy: Damn, boy. I thought you were good.
Dalton: Go **** yourself.

View Quote Morgan: [after being fired] What am I supposed to do?
Dalton: There's always barber college.