Bartender
I'm as liberal as the next guy.
If the next guy is a redneck.
Sheriff Sam Deeds
Chris Cooper · 5 quotes
Pilar Cruz
Elizabeth Peña · 3 quotes
Otis Payne
Ron Canada · 1 quote
Wesley Birdsong
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Lone Star quotes
Chucho Montoya You're the sheriff of Rio County, right? Un jefe mui respectado. [drawing a line in the sand] Step across this line. You're not the sheriff of nothing anymore, just some tejano with a lot of questions I don't have to answer. A bird flying south, you think he sees this line? Rattlesnake? Javelina? Whatever you got. You think halfway across that line they start thinking different? Why should a man?
Your government's always been pretty happy to have that line, the question's just been where to draw it.
Chucho Montoya My government can go **** itself, and so can yours! I'm talking about people here. Men.
Coworker
Your mother's family is Spanish?
Sure, they go back to Cortés. When he rode by, they were squatting in a hut cooking hamsters for dinner.
Mickey
Think her family's gonna be okay that you're a white guy?
Sgt. Cliff They think any woman over 30 who isn't married is a lesbian. She figures, they'll be so relieved that I'm a man...
Mickey
Yeah, it's always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.
Mrs. Bledsoe?
Minnie Bledsoe That's me.
I'm Sheriff Deeds.
Minnie Bledsoe Sheriff Deeds is dead, honey. You just Sheriff Junior.
Yeah, that's the story of my life.
All my mother does is work. That's how you get to be Spanish.
All that other stuff, all that history? To hell with it, right? Forget the Alamo.
Hell, at my age, you learn a new name you gotta forget an old one.
It's not like there's a line between the good people and the bad people. It is not like you're one or the other.
No telling yet if there's been a crime, but this country's seen a fair amount of disagreements over the years.
You oughta put up a banner: "Frontera, Texas: gateway to inexpensive pussy."