Doctor
Explain this to me again. I didn't know somebody could shoot themself with their own arrow.
Bobby Trippe
Ned Beatty · 15 quotes
Lewis Medlock
Burt Reynolds · 15 quotes
Ed Gentry
Jon Voight · 13 quotes
Drew Ballinger
Ronny Cox · 4 quotes
Mountain Man
Bill McKinney · 4 quotes
Toothless Man
Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Ed Gentry & Lewis Medlock (5), Ed Gentry & Bobby Trippe (5), Lewis Medlock & Bobby Trippe (4)
Deliverance quotes
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Sheriff
Let's just wait and see what comes out of the river.
Taxi Driver All this land's gonna be covered with water. This is the best thing that ever happened to this town.
Hey, what happens if we flip this thing over?
Now that you brought that up, hang onto your paddle. And if you hit any rocks, don't hit 'em with your head.
I had my first wet dream in a sleepin' bag.
How was it?
Great. [pause] There's no repeatin' it.
It's true, Lewis, what you said. There's somethin' in the woods and in the water that we have lost in the city.
We didn't lose it. We sold it.
Well, I'll say one thing for the system - the system did produce the air-mattress. Or as it's better known among we camping types the instant broad. And if you fellows will excuse me, I'm gonna go be mean to my air mattress.
Say, mister, I love the way you wear that hat.
Man
You don't know nuthin'.
What are you going to do with Drew?
Oh God, there's no end to it. I didn't really know him.
Drew was a good husband to his wife Linda and you were a wonderful father to your boys, Drew - Jimmie and Billie Ray. And if we come through this, I promise to do all I can for 'em. He was the best of us.
Amen.
Which way are we goin', this way or that?
I think, uh, downstream would be a good idea, don't you? Drew - you and Bobby see some rocks, you yell out now, right?...
Lewis, is this the way you get your rocks off?
Everything happened right here. Lewis broke his leg in those rapids there, and Drew drowned here.
No, nothin' happened here.
Bobby, listen to me. We got to stop them from lookin' up river. It's important that we get together on this thing. Do you understand?...We're not out of this yet.
What are we gonna do, Lewis? You're the guy with the answers. What the hell do we do now?
Now you get to play the game.
Lewis, you're wrong.
Man
Hell, you're crazy.
No shit. Hey, fill that one up with gas, huh, OK?
Can that chubby boy handle himself?
Bobby? He's rather well thought of in his field, Lewis.
Insurance? I never been insured in my life. There's no risk.
Is your name Griner?
Griner
Whaddya wanna know for?
I was wondering if you and your brother could take a couple of trucks down to Aintry for us. We'll be there about Sunday noon.
Griner
Take 'em down there for what?
Me and my buddy here are taking a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee.
Griner
Canoe trip?
That's right, a canoe trip.
Griner
What the hell you wanna go **** around with that river for?
Because it's there.
Griner
It's there alright and you get in it and can't git out, you gonna wish it wasn't.
I'll give you thirty bucks to take those vehicles down to Aintry for us.
Griner
I'll take fifty.
Fifty my ass.
Griner
[stepping forward]
What did you say?
I said fifty my ass!
Griner
I'll do it fer forty.
O.K. [to Ed] You good for ten?
Yep.
Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game - survive.
Well, the system's done all right by me.
Oh yeah. You gotta nice job, you gotta a nice house, a nice wife, a nice kid.
You make that sound rather shitty, Lewis.
Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed?
I like my life, Lewis.
Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me?
You know, sometimes I wonder about that.