John Hawkes movie quotes

View Quote [after taking off the bandage from his hand] It needs air. It needs to do some living. Let's take my hand for a walk.

View Quote I don't want to have to do this living. I just walk around. I want to be swept off my feet, you know? I want my children to have magical powers. I am prepared for amazing things to happen. I can handle it.

View Quote You know some kids don't even have one home and now you get to have two. Think about that.

View Quote Pete Bottoms: [about a Texas Ranger] Look, he comes in here everyday. We bullshit, and he's used my bathroom about a thousand times. If I said no this time he'd know somethin' was up.
Seth: Okay, I want him out of here, in his car, and down the road or you can change the name of this place to Benny's World of Blood.

View Quote Richie: The Ranger's taking a piss. Why don't I just go there, blow his head off and get outta here.
Pete Bottoms: Don't do that! Look, you asked me to act natural, and I'm acting as natural - in fact, under the circumstances, I think I ought get a ****in' Academy Award for how natural I'm acting.

View Quote Pete Bottoms: Whatsamatter?
Earl McGraw: [sighs] Ah, it's just been a shit-ass day, every inch of it hot and miserable. First off, Nadine at the Blue Chip got some sorta sick, so that mongoloid boy of hers was working the grill. That **** idiot don't know rat shit from Rice Krispies. I ate breakfast at nine, was puking up pigs in a blanket like a sick dog by 10:30.
Pete: Isn't there a law or something against **** serving food to the public?
McGraw: Well, if there ain't there sure ought to be. Who knows what goes on inside mongoloid's mind?
Pete: You could sue the shit out of her, you know. That kid belongs under a circus tent, not flipping burgers. You could own that **** place.
McGraw: What the hell would I do with that grease pit? Besides, Nadine's got enough of a cross to bear just taking care of that potato head.

View Quote Teardrop: You ought not do that. Don’t go running after Jessup. Show or don’t show that choice is up to the one going to jail, not you.
Ree: You know where he’s at, don’t you?
Teardrop: Where a man’s at ain’t necessarily for you to know neither.
Ree: But you do...
[Teardrop abruptly shoots a warning look at Ree]
Teardrop: I ain’t seen him.
Ree: Could be running around with Little Arthur and them, you think?
Teardrop: Don’t you ever go down around Little Arthur’s asking them people about shit they ain’t offering to talk about. That’s a real good way to end up et by hogs, or wishing you was.
Ree: We’re all related ain’t we?
Teardrop: Our relations get watered kinda thin between here and Little Arthur’s.
Victoria: You know all those people, Teardrop. You could ask.
Teardrop: Shut up.
Victoria: None of them’s gonna be in a great big hurry to tangle with you.
Teardrop: I said shut up once already with my mouth.
Ree: Jesus, Dad’s your only brother.
Teardrop: You think I forgot that? Hmm? Jessup and me run together for coming on forty years but I don’t know where he’s at, and I ain’t going to go around asking after him neither.

View Quote Teardrop: What Jessup done was against our ways, he knew it, I know it, and I ain’t raised no stink at all about whatever became of him. But she ain’t my brother. She’s about all the close family I got left, so I’ll be collecting her now and carrying her on out of here to home. That suit you, Thump?
Thump Milton: You’re gonna stand for her, are you?
Teardrop: If she does wrong, you can put it on me.
Thump Milton: She’s now yours to answer for.
Teardrop: This is a girl who ain’t gonna tell nobody nothing.

View Quote Ree: What I really can’t stand is how I feel so ashamed--for Dad.
Teardrop: Well, he loved y’all. That’s where he went weak. Lots of us can be tough, plenty tough enough, and do it for a long stretch, too.
Ree: But snitching.
Teardrop: For lots’n lots of years he wasn’t. He wasn’t, he wasn’t, and then one day he was.
Ree: You always have scared me.
Teardrop: That’s cause you’re smart.