Tim Blake Nelson movie quotes

View Quote Everett: Well, I guess hard times flush the chumps. Everybody's lookin' for answers... Where the hell's he goin'?
[Delmar runs out to be baptized]
Pete: Well I'll be a son of a bitch. Delmar's been saved.
Delmar: Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed! The preacher done washed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out. And heaven everlasting's my reward!
Everett: Delmar, what are you talking about? We've got bigger fish to fry.
Delmar: The preacher said all my sins is washed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.
Everett: I thought you said you was innocent of those charges.
Delmar: Well I was lyin'. And the preacher said that that sin's been washed away, too. Neither God nor man's got nothin' on me now! C'mon in boys, the water is fine.

View Quote George Nelson: Okay, folks, hold the applause and drop your drawers! I'm George Nelson, and I'm here to sack the city Itta Bena!
Delmar: He's a live wire, though, ain't he?
George Nelson: [approaches the tellers] All the money in a bag! What are you looking at, Grandpa?
Everett: Pardon me, George. You got a plan for getting out of here?
George Nelson: Sure, boys. [tosses the money bag to Everett] Here's my plan. [opens his jacket to reveal sticks of dynamite, then laughs] They ain't never seen ordinance like this! [to the crowd] Thank you, folks! And remember, Jesus saves, but George Nelson withdraws! [laughs] Go fix the auto voiture, Pete.
Woman: [whispers to the man next to her] Is that Babyface Nelson?
George Nelson: Who said that? What ignorant, lowdown, slanderizin' SON OF A BITCH SAID THAT??!! [approaches the woman] My name is GEORGE NELSON! GET ME?! [the woman nods in fear]
Delmar: She didn't mean nothing by it, George.
George Nelson: GEORGE NELSON! NOT "BABYFACE"!!! You remember! And you tell your friends! I'm George Nelson! Born to raise hell! [fires a shot in the air, then leaves with Everett, Pete, and Delmar]

View Quote [Big Dan, Everett, and Delmar are having a picnic lunch]
Big Dan Teague: Thank you, boys, for throwin' in that fricassee. I'm a man of large appetites. Even with lunch under my belt, I was feeling a mite peckish.
Everett: It's our pleasure, Big Dan.
Big Dan Teague: Thank you as well for the conversational hiatus. I generally refrain from speech during gustation. There are those who attempt both at the same time. I find it coarse and vulgar. Where were we?
Delmar: Makin' money in the Lord's service.
Big Dan Teague: You don't say much friend, but when you do, it's to the point and I salute you for it. Yes, Bible sales. Now, the trade is not a complicated one. There are but two things to learn. One: being where to find a wholesaler. The word of God in bulk, as it were. Two: how to recognize your customer. Who are you dealing with? It's an exercise in psychology, so to speak. And it is that which I propose to give you a lesson in right now. [snaps a branch off a nearby tree]
Everett: Well, I like to think I'm an astute observer of the human scene, too, Big Dan.
Big Dan Teague: No doubt, brother. I figured as much back at the restaurant. That's why I invited you all out here for this advanced tutorial. [hits Delmar with the branch]
Everett: What's goin' on, Big Dan?
Big Dan Teague: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, BOYS! THAT'S IT! [Delmar grab's Big Dan's leg; Big Dan knocks Delmar out with the branch] Gol... durned... MONEY!
Everett: I don't get it, Big Dan. [Big Dan yells and knocks Everett unconscious with the branch]
Big Dan Teague: I'll just take your show cards... [pulls a wad of money out of Everett's pocket; Delmar jumps onto Big Dan, but Big Dan swings him around and throws him to the ground] ...and whatever ya got in the hole. [opens the shoebox and is dismayed to see the toad inside] What the...? There ain't nothin' but a damn toad.
Delmar: No, you don't understand. That's Pete. [Big Dan takes the toad out of the shoebox] Pete...
Big Dan Teague: You know these things give ya warts? [squashes the toad in his hand, then throws it against the tree] End of lesson. So long, boys. [chuckles mockingly] See ya in the funny papers. Y'all seen the end of Big Dan Teague. [gets in the car and drives away, leaving Everett and Delmar battered on the ground]

View Quote You let me rot in this prison. And it was my curse to watch your betrayal written in probabilities. I'm making my own choices now. So many surprises left... When I'm done, everyone will know just who you are, and Betty will despise you even more. Goodbye, Mr. President.

View Quote You're a fascinating problem. But soon, you'll be off the board so you don't surprise me again.

View Quote All that hatred you try to hide, all the ugliness... It's still there, Ross. Smoldering behind the eyes.

View Quote Have you ever noticed how it just keeps destroying everything in its path but it never looks down. It’s like it’s being operated by remote control.

View Quote Gloria: I’m going to show you guys something.
Garth: Gloria, you’ve got to see this, it’s dancing.” Referring to the giant monster dancing.
Gloria: It’s dancing like…
Oscar: Holy shit!

View Quote Gloria: What was that?
Garth: A helicopter.
Gloria: What with like the pilot and everything?

View Quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt: You never pitied me, Tom. Thank you for that.
Tom Loyless: On the contrary; I envy you.

View Quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I want no part of this. I come here for privacy.
Tom Loyless: This isn't your personal spa! I have a business to run!
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Exactly! You have a business to run not I!
Tom Loyless: No one's asking anything of you!
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Course they are!
Tom Loyless: Do you know what it took for most of them to get here?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: It's not my concern! I want to be left alone!
Tom Loyless: My God... You're afraid of these people.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Afraid? What are you talking about?
Tom Loyless: You look at them with the same repulsion and pity as everyone else.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Don't be ridiculous! And I resent--
Tom Loyless: You don't want to be around them because then that would make you one of them. Wouldn't it?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: God dammit! Get outta my way! Get out of my goddamn way!

View Quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [on first arriving at Warm Springs] I can't stay here. This place is a wreck.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Franklin.
Tom Loyless: Look on the bright side, most of your time will be spent in the water. Look, we've fallen on some hard times...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hard times?! This place should be condemned!
Tom Loyless: [short pause] Yes, it's true, we've seen better days. But then, I imagine, so have you. [short pause] I'd be happy to drive you back to the train station right now if that's what you'd like?
Eleanor Roosevelt: My husband is concerned.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fire. [short pause] I'm very frightened of fire. I can't get out if I'm upstairs I...
Tom Loyless: Oh, of course. We have other options.

View Quote Come alive! Come alive!

View Quote [everyone starts cheering] Male Reporter: Mystery Inc., Do you know the identity of the Evil Masked Figure behind at all?
Velma: Well, if our hunch is correct, the Evil Masked Figure is... [Daphne and Velma takes off the mask]
Evil Masked Figure/Heather: NO! [everyone gasping]
Daphne: Heather Jasper-Howe.
Scooby: Uh-huh. Huh? [Jeremiah and Patrick arrive]
Female Reporter 1: But she was at the museum when the Masked Figure was on the roof.
Daphne: [to Heather] You almost had me there, didn't you? Lucky for her, she had an assistant helping her along with her evil plans. [points at Ned] NED. [going to a flashback where Ned puts on Heather's costume] When I realized she was the Evil Masked Figure he quickly changed into her costume.
Female Reporter 2: But why did she do it?
Velma: Because, Heather-Jasper Howe is actually... [Velma peels her face off turns out it's their past foe and everyone gasps louder] ...Dr. Jonathan Jacobo. [Daphne and Shaggy gasps and shocking Jeremiah Wickles] The original Pterodactyl Ghost.
Female Reporter 3: But how do you know this?
Velma: [showing the picture] A photo. Taken of Jacobo in front of the Coolsonian. Jacobo supposedly died a year before construction even began.
Shaggy: So, Jacobo survived that fall off the prison wall.
Scooby: Yeah.
Fred: He also adapted the false Heather Jasper-Howe persona to turn the press against us!
Daphne: Then he framed poor hideous old man Wickles by putting that book and the Black Knight Ghost in his mansion.
Jeremiah Wickles: As if you getting the lead in My Fair Lady wasn't enough!
Jonathan Jacobo: I was an excellent Eliza! You were to acty!
Jeremiah Wickles: AND STEALING MY TATER TOTS!!!!!
Jonathan Jacobo: You kept saying you felt puffy!
Fred: And the real identity of Ned is... [rips his hair realizing it's himself]
Ned: OW!
Fred: NED!
Scooby: Huh?
Jonathan Jacobo: I would've gotten away with it. If it weren't for those meddling kids and the dog, two!!!!!!!!!!!! [everyone cheers Mystery Inc.]
Ned: You were a dude this whole time?
Jonathan Jacobo: Of course, dummkopf.
Ned: But, we cuddled.

View Quote [nervously, as Blonsky transforms into the Abomination] This is... what I was trying to explain! I don't know what you've been... ladling into yourself... but clearly it worked. Let's assume you don't understand a word I'm saying... but if you'll just get back on the table... I can fix this...! [the Abomination knocks him into a table, injuring his head; a blood sample from Banner trickles into the wound, and he grins as his cranium starts to swell]

View Quote Major Kathleen "Kat" Sparr: Here's something interesting. Possible gamma sickness. Milwaukee. Man drank one of those guarana sodas…guess it had a little more kick than he was looking for.
[Scene cuts to a man opening his fridge, reaching for a soda, opening it and drinking.]
Milwaukee Man: Wow.
[He drops the bottle.]
[After Blonsky's mission to Brazil to recapture Banner goes awry.]
Emil Blonsky: Forgive me, sir, but…doesn't anybody want to talk about what went down in there? Because he didn't lose us. And he was not alone, sir. We had him, but then something hit us. Something big hit us. IT THREW A FORKLIFT TRUCK LIKE IT WAS A SOFTBALL! It was the most powerful thing I've ever seen.
Gen. Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross: Well, it's gone.
Blonsky: Well, if Banner knows what it is, I'm gonna track him down, I'm gonna put my foot on his throat, and I'm gonna–
Ross: That was Banner. It was Banner.
Blonsky: [Understandably confused] You'll have to explain that, sir.
Ross: No, I don't. You've done a good job. Pack up and get our men on a plane. We're going home.
[Ross briefs Blonsky about Banner.]
Ross: You must realize what I'm about to tell you is very sensitive, both to me and the Army. You know that we have a Bio-Force Department, and that we had a bio-force enhancement project developed during World War II.
Blonsky: A super-soldier.
Ross: A simplification, but yes. We decided to dust it off and give it another go, aiming to create a better soldier. Banner's work was very early phase. It wasn’t even weapons application. He thought he was working on radiation resistance. I would never have told him what the project really was. But he was so sure of what he was onto, that he tested it on himself. And something went very wrong– or it went very right. As far as I’m concerned, that man’s whole body is property of the U.S. Army.
Blonsky: You said he wasn’t working on weapons, right?
Ross: No.
Blonsky: But you were. You were, weren’t you? You were trying other things.
Ross: One serum we developed…was very promising.
Blonsky: So why did he run?
Ross: He's a scientist. He is not one of us.
Betty Ross: Bruce, I don't understand why we can't just walk in and talk to my father.
Banner: He told me what he was gonna do. He wants it out of me. He wants to dissect it so he can replicate it. He wants to make it a weapon.
Betty: What is it like? When it happens, what do you experience?
Banner: Remember those experiments we volunteered for at Harvard? Those induced hallucinations? It’s a lot like that, just a thousand times amplified. It’s like someone poured a liter of acid into my brain.
Betty: Do you remember anything?
Banner: Just fragments. Images. There's too much noise, I can never derive anything out of it.
Betty: But then, it's still you, inside of it–
Banner: No. No, it's not.
Betty: I don’t know. In the cave, I really felt like it knew me. Maybe your mind is in there, it's just overcharged and can't process what's happening–
Banner: I don't want to control it. I want to get rid of it.
[After Blonsky has every bone in his body shattered during a fight with the Hulk.]
Sparr: Sir, Blonsky.
Ross: [Expecting the worst] Does anyone know if he had any next-of-kin or family?
Sparr: Ask him yourself.
Blonsky: [In perfect health, salutes Ross] Sir.
Ross: Betty–
Betty: I will never forgive what you've done to him.
Ross: He's a fugitive.
Betty: You made him a fugitive. To cover your failures, and to protect your career. Don't ever speak to me as your daughter again.
Ross: It's only because you're my daughter that you're not in handcuffs too.
[General Ross meets with Betty's boyfriend.]
Ross: You did the right thing contacting us. Leonard, I need to know where they're going. She'll be in incredible danger as long as she's with him.
Leonard Samson: From who? He protected her, you almost killed her.
Ross: I give you my word, her safety is my main concern at this point.
Leonard: You know, it's a point of professional pride for me that I can tell when somebody's lying. And you are. I don't know where he's going. I know she'll help him if she can.
Ross: Then she's aiding a fugitive. And I can't help either one of them. [Walks off]
Leonard: I used to wonder why she never talked about you. Now I know.
Ross: [To himself] Where does she meet these guys?
Sparr: Are you telling me you can make more like him?
Dr. Samuel Sterns: No, not yet! I've sorted out a few pieces, but it's not like I can put together the same Humpty Dumpty, if that's what you're asking. He was a freak accident, the goal is to do it better!
Sparr: So Banner was the only– [Knocked unconscious]
Blonsky: Aah, she's an annoying bitch, isn't she?
Sterns: Why are you always hitting people?! [Blonsky pulls out his gun and points it at Dr. Sterns] Now what…could I have possibly done…to deserve such aggression?
Blonsky: [Mumbling agitatedly] It's not what you've done, it's what you're gonna do. [Dr. Sterns raises his head, interested] I want what you've got off Banner, I want that.
Sterns: [Rising] You look like…you've got a little something in you already, don't you?
Blonsky: Yeah, well, I want more. You've seen what he becomes, right?
Sterns: I have…and it's beautiful. Godlike.
Blonsky: I want that…I need that. Make me that.
Sterns: I don't know what you've got inside you already. The mixture could become…an abomination. [Blonsky grabs Dr. Sterns by the collar and raises him into the air] I didn't say I was unwilling…I just need informed consent…and you've given it!
[In New York City]
Betty: The subway is probably quickest.
Banner: Me? In a metal tube, deep underground with hundreds of people in the most aggressive city in the world?
Betty: …right, let's get a cab.
[One very stressful cab ride later.]
Betty: [Kicking the cab door as she gets out] ASSHOLE!!!
Banner: You know, I know a few techniques that could help you manage that anger effectively—
Betty: You zip it! We're walking.
Banner: …okay.
Abomination: [About to kill Ross with a huge chain] General…any last words?
Hulk: [Rouses] HULK…SMASH!! [Smashes the ground]
[Pre-credits scene: General Ross sulks at a bar]
Ross: [Drinks shot] Reload. [Barkeep gets another shot; Ross chugs the shot] Reload.
Shadowy Figure: [Approaches Ross] Mmmm, the smell of stale beer and defeat. Y'know, I hate to say "I told you so," General, but that Super-Soldier program was put on ice for a reason. [Appears as Tony Stark] I've always felt that hardware was much more reliable.
Ross: Stark.
Stark: General.
Ross: You always wear such nice suits.
Stark: Touché. I hear you have an unusual problem.
Ross: You should talk.
Stark: You should listen. [Ross leans in a bit as Stark whispers] What if I told you we were putting a team together?
Ross: Who's "we"?
[Stark clears his throat, looks at Ross, and smiles.]

View Quote [to lawyer Bennett Holiday] Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale, thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole, make a name for himself, maybe get elected some two-bit, congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here. No, I tell you. No, sir! Corruption charges! Corruption?!! Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.