Henry Brubaker quotes from Brubaker (1980)

Coombes

What you gon' do about Abraham?

Brubaker

I've got Purcell filling out forms in triplicate, and I'm going to get him released just as soon as I-

Coombes

Now why do you wanna go and do that?

Brubaker

Do what?

Coombes

Look, why don't you just leave him be. I mean, all he knows is this place.

Brubaker

You - You knew that he had been in here as long as he'd been in here.

Coombes

Just leave him alone. He's not- He's not botherin' nobody here.

Brubaker

Hey... You can't hide in prison forever, Coombes.

Brubaker

Hey. Can we talk?

Walter

Who the **** are you? I want the man!

Brubaker

I am. I am the man. I'm the new warden here. My name's Henry Brubaker.

Walter

Man, don't be **** with my head. 'New warden' my ass!

Brubaker

It's true - I swear it.

Walter

Then how come you look like a scumbag?

Brubaker

'Cause I'm fooling those guys out there.

Brubaker

Mess with me now; you're gonna regret it later.

Coombes

We don't work this thing out fast, mister, you're not gonna be around later.

Brubaker

Do you want ID?

Coombes

Listen, man. All I have to do is raise my right hand and that tower guard's gonna blow you out.

Brubaker

...or you can continue walking with me, like the smart escort I figure you to be.

Bullen

I got picked up for vagrancy - a misdemeanor. Next morning, the toilet's broke clean off the damn wall. There's six men in the cell, and they stick me with destruction of city property over $50. Felony number three.

Brubaker

Habitual. That judge gives you life for a toilet.

Bullen

Yeah, or give me the toilet for life. Same difference. Anyhow; here I am shoveling shit for dead men.

Brubaker

Instead, how'd you like to be a trustee, and run my motorpool?

Bullen

Mr. Brubaker, I've been studying you since you first come in. And it's come clear to me that you are one weird **** individual. I ain't got you figgered out yet - whether you're a good thing or a bad one.

Brubaker

Does that mean you'll run my motorpool?

Bullen

Wear them khakis? Get me a guitar? Be the warden's new boy?

Brubaker

No, you're smarter than that.

Bullen

The whole world's **** up, Mr. Brubaker. Ain't no use.

Brubaker

Tower number 3 - who'm I looking at? He's looking at me.

Coombes

Up there, you got Douglass Mizell.

Brubaker

Who the hell is Doug Mizell?

Coombes

He's a forger. Three times grand theft.

Brubaker

I want a rundown on everybody that's got tower duty. I-

Coombes

I do believe that's Purcell's job, sir.

Brubaker

I want only murderers up there; one-time impulse killers.

Coombes

Well, aren't you taking kind of a chance doing that? Aren't you? I mean, uh...

Brubaker

No, it's the habituals you can't trust. Murderers - most of 'em - already have it out of their system. Guys like you, right?

Coombes

There's nobody around here like me.

Brubaker

Why don't we build them a roof that won't cave in on their heads?

Rauch

That's enough.

Brubaker

An insured roof, this time.

Glenn Elwood

What do you mean?

Brubaker

The collapsed roof isn't covered at all - that's what I mean. But we DO have coverage for thrashing machines, balers, swathers, a tractor...

Rauch

Sounds pretty sensible to me to have the things insured. I approved those policies personally.

Brubaker

You did more than that: your company sold us the policies. The only trouble with it is: we don't have any of that equipment on our farm. It doesn't exist.

Rauch

What you HAVE got Mr. Brubaker is a piss-poor attitude.

Brubaker

You're not eating?

Coombes

I don't eat that shit you eat.

Brubaker

Do you know anything about nutrition?

Coombes

I know about hungry.