The Green Mile (1999) · 25 quotes
4th most-quoted character in The Green Mile (1999): in 3 of its 25 quotes
Most scenes with: Wild Bill (3), Paul Edgecomb (2)
Percy Wetmore You switched 'em. You switched 'em somehow, you bastards.
Brutus "Brutal" Howell I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this.
Hal Moores 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 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?
Percy Wetmore I didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet.
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?
Percy Wetmore Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Percy Wetmore 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.
