(Singing)
Bar-be-QUE! Me and you! Stinky-pinky, fue-fue-fue! Wen't Billy, Jilly, Hilly or Pa! It was a french-fried cajon named Delacroix! WOO!
Paul Edgecomb
Tom Hanks · 16 quotes
Wild Bill
Sam Rockwell · 12 quotes
John Coffey
Michael Clarke Duncan · 8 quotes
Percy Wetmore
Doug Hutchison · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Paul Edgecomb & Wild Bill (7), John Coffey & Wild Bill (4), Paul Edgecomb & John Coffey (3)
The Green Mile quotes
Page 1 of 2John… tell me what you want me to do. You want me to take you out o' here? Just let you run away? See how far you could get?
Why would you do such a foolish thing?
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I… did I kill one of his true… miracles… what am I gonna say? That it was my job? [muttering] It was my job.
You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done.
[Coffey puts his hand on Edgecombe's wrung ones.]
I know you hurtin' and worryin'. I can feel it on you. But you oughta quit on it now. I want it over and done with. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to, or coming from, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time. Can you understand?
Yes, John, I think I can.
Men under strain can snap. Hurt themselves and hurt others. That's why our job is talking, not yelling. You'd do better to think of this place like as an intensive care ward of a hospital.
I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in. That's all. Anybody doesn't like it… you can kiss my ass.
Dean Stanton [After Coffey brings Mr. Jingles back to life…]
What did you do?
I helped Del's mouse. He a circus mouse. Gonna live in a mouse city, down in… [struggles with a word]
Brutus "Brutal" Howell Florida?
[Coffey seizes a suffering Edgecombe for a few moments, then spews a mysterious insect-like cloud, which dissipates.]
What did you just do to me?
I helped it. Didn't I help it? I just took it back, is all. Awful tired now, boss. Dog tired.
[Edgecomb talks to Warden Moores about sadistic guard Percy.]
Elaine Connelly [Feeding a slow but still active Mr. Jingles, Paul tells Elaine about the consequences of John's gift.]
He infected you with life?
Old Paul Edgecombe
That's as good a word as any.
[Paul has the "boys" over for lunch, as he hatches his plan for the warden's terminally-ill wife.]
You all saw what he did to the mouse.
Brutal Howell I coulda gone the rest o' the day without you bringin' that up.
Dean Stanton I coulda gone the rest o' the year.
He did the same thing to me. He put his hands on me… he took my bladder infection away.
Jan Edgecombe
'S true. When he came home that day, he was…
Jan Edgecombe
[She pauses and half-smiles.]
… all better.
Dean Stanton [Paul gives her a sly look.]
Aw, wait. You're talkin' about a… authentic healin', a… "praise Jesus" miracle?
I am.
Jan Edgecombe
[barely suppressing a grin]
Ohh, yeah.
[Percy sees Mr. Jingles alive again. He storms back to Edgecombe and Howell.]
You switched 'em. You switched 'em somehow, you bastards.
Brutus "Brutal" Howell [grinning]
I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this.
Bill Dodge
[Percy, staring vacantly, is unresponsive after his final debacle with Wild Bill.]
Son, can ya hear me?
Sheriff McGee Speak up if you can hear us.
Bill Dodge
I think this boy's cheese slid off his cracker
[singing/sobbing]
Heaven… I'm in heaven… heaven…
[Coffey is entraced watching Astaire and Rogers dancing "Cheek to Cheek" in Top Hat.]
Harry Terwilliger [Terwilliger out the foolishness of taking convicted murderer Coffey out of prison.]
Now, w-what if he escapes? I'd hate to lose my job or go to… prison… but I'd hate worse to have a dead child on my conscience.
I don't think that's gonna happen. In fact… I don't think he did it at all. I do not see… God putting a… a gift like that in the hands of a man that'd kill a child.
[The day after Coffey cures Edgecombe's urinary infection, Edgecombe brings Coffey some cornbread.]
It's from my missus. She wanted to… thank you.
Thank me for what?
Well, you know. [looks around, then whispers] For helping me.
Helpin' you with what?
You know.
Several times.
Hal Moores [Warden Moores storms into the room after Delacroix's excrutiatingly long electrocution.]
What in the blue **** was that?!? Jesus Christ! There's puke all over the floor up there… And the smell! I got Van Hay to open both doors, but that smell won't go out for five damn years, that's what I'm bettin'. And that asshole, Wharton, is singing about it! You can hear him up there!
Hal Moores [Moores takes the hint and laughs grimly, regaining his composure.]
Okay, boys, okay. Now, what in the hell happened?
An execution. A successful one.
Hal Moores How in the name of Christ can you call that a success?
Eduard Delacroix is dead.
Hal Moores Percy? Something to say?
Hal Moores How many years you spend pissing on a toilet seat before someone told you to put it up?
Hal Moores That your official position?
Don't you think it should be? He's puttin' in for a transfer request to Briar Ridge tomorrow. Movin' on to bigger and better things. Isn't that right, Percy?
Yeah. Yeah.