The Last Picture Show quotes

View Quote Sam: Now you see - this is what I get for bettin' on my own hometown ball team - oughta have better sense.
Abilene: Wouldn't hurt to have a better home town.

View Quote One thing I know for sure - a person can't sneeze in this town without somebody offerin' him a handkerchief...it's an awful small town for any kinda carryin' on...And some people got a lotta guns.

View Quote [to Sonny, after they get married] Goodness, wouldn't it be just awful if Momma and Daddy got the police after us?...Well, I had to leave 'em a note, you know, so they wouldn't be worried out of their mind.

View Quote Lois: You won't believe this, Sonny, but you're lucky we got you clear of her quick as we did. You'd have been a lot better off staying with Ruth Popper.
Sonny: Does everybody know about that?
Lois: 'Course. Sounds like a good deal to me, kiddo. You shouldn't let Jacy turn your head.
Sonny: Well, she's prettier. I guess I shouldn't have, though. I guess I treated her terrible.
Lois: Guess you did.

View Quote Miss Mosey: Nobody wants to come to shows no more. Kids got baseball in the summer, television all the time. If Sam had lived, I believe we could've kept it goin'. But I just didn't have the know-how.
Duane: Won't be much to do in town with the picture show closed.
Sonny: Yeah.

View Quote [to Lester] My Gawd. I'm glad it wasn't on fire. I would have burned to death before you got one button undone.

View Quote [to Sonny] Not here. I'm too old for screwin' in cars. I don't like to hurry...I'm afraid to right now. I think my folks are watchin' me. They know I don't wanna go to college and they might think we're gonna run off and get married. We'll do it when it's safe. We've got all summer.

View Quote [to Sonny] See you in a year or two, if I don't get shot.

View Quote Lois: I'd just hate to see you marry him, that's all. You wouldn't be rich anymore, and in about two months...
Jacy: I don't care about money...
Lois: ...he'd quit flattering you.
Jacy: Not at all.
Lois: Well, you're pretty stupid then.
Jacy: Well, you married Daddy when he was poor. And he got rich, didn't he?
Lois: I scared your Daddy into gettin' rich, beautiful.
Jacy: Well, if Daddy could do it, Duane could too.
Lois: Not married to you. You're not scary enough.
Jacy: Well, you're rich and you're miserable. I sure don't want to be like you.
Lois: Not much danger of that.

View Quote Jacy: Oh, he's just awful, Momma. Why do you fool with him? Daddy's a nicer man than him, isn't he?
Lois: He sure is, beautiful. Your Daddy's a very nice man. I oughta been givin' Abilene hell, instead of him.
Jacy: I don't know what I'm gonna do. Bobby was the last one - I'm just gonna be an old maid.
Lois: Oh no, honey, that's just the way it goes sometimes, you know. You win a few, you lose a few.
Jacy: What do you do? Nothin's ever the way it's supposed to be at all.
Lois: You're right, come on. I wanna tell you somethin'. What I've done has not worked out too well. I think maybe we better think of somethin' else for you.

View Quote Jacy: Why can't I just stay here and go to college in Wichita Falls?
Lois: Because everything is flat and empty here, and nothin' to do.

View Quote [to Sonny, about Jacy] Listen, if you hear they busted up, let me know.

View Quote Trucker: [about Billy] What was he doin' out there anyway, carryin' that broom?
Sheriff: Aw, he weren't doin' nothin'. He was just an ol' simple-minded kid - never had any sense.
Cowboy: Sorta ****ed, you know. It wasn't your fault...
Another man: He was just a dumb ol' kid, never was good for much.
Cowboy: Didn't even know enough to keep his ass out of the cold, morning like this...
Trucker: I'd still like to know what he was doin' luggin' that broom around this time of day.
Sonny: [crying] He was sweepin', ya sons of bitches. He was sweepin'.

View Quote We ain't done nothin' wrong. Ain't we got a right to get married? How can you arrest us, just like that?

View Quote [to Jacy] But I can do it now, I know I can!