Needful Things quotes

View Quote Buster Keeton: I just killed my wife. Is that bad?
Leland Gaunt: Hey, these things happen.

View Quote Father Meehan: If there's a devil in this town, it's that damned Reverend Willie Rose!
Sheriff Pangborn: [about Leland Gaunt] You believe me now, Father? You still think he's a decent man? The Devil just blew up your damn church!
Father Meehan: That's not the Devil. It's those God-damned Baptists!

View Quote Nettie Cobb: You killed my doggy, you bitch!
Wilma Jerzyck: You broke my microwave, you crazy ****!

View Quote [trying to break up an argument between Deputy Norris and Buster] You know, guys, I moved here and I thought, Great! I'm outta the big city and I'm finally in a place where everybody isn't gonna be crawling up everybody's asshole every day! A place where maybe my biggest nightmare is gonna be getting some goddamn cat out of a tree! But forget that! EVERYBODY IS INSANE, EVERYWHERE!

View Quote Don't be afraid of it, Hugh. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

View Quote If it's too hot in here, Mr. Jewett, just say the word. I'm afraid I have a tendency to turn up the heat.

View Quote Kill them all. Let God sort them out.

View Quote Oh yes, we're having fun now.

View Quote Oh. You know, there are days I really hate this job. This is not my best work, not by a long shot. Oh, sure, a few murders and a couple of rather lovely explosions. I would hardly call it a rousing success, but what the hell? I'll be back. In the meantime, you and Polly, you are two terrific kids, and you'll marry her. Trust me. She's a lovely girl, Alan. You'll have a wonderful family. Oh, by the way, give my regards to your grandson. Bob will be his name, International Trade his game. I'll see him in Jakarta, 2053. August 14. 10a.m. A nice, sunny day. We'll make headlines.

View Quote The young carpenter from Nazareth? I knew him well. Promising young man. He died badly.

View Quote When I started out I was just a peddler moving across the blind face of a distant land. Moving, always moving. Always gone... and in the end I'd always offer weapons. And they'd always take them. Of course I was gone before they realized what they'd purchased.