Bullitt County Quotes

Carolyn: We Kentuckians, every buck-toothed, country bumpkin one of us, we're all at least smart to stay away from diggin' up what ain't ours.

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Wayne: You should get rid of it.
Gordie: I should get rid of a lot of things.
Wayne: That some sort of threat?

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The Mr.: Where did you serve?
Gordie: That obvious, huh?
The Mr.: Oh I know a fellow serviceman when I see one.
Gordie: I don't know how much you can call it servin'. I was called up by Uncle Sam, hopped on an airplane, then a helicopter, and I landed in the middle of Saigon, it was January 29th, 1968.
The Mr.: That is some bad luck, kid.

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Robin: It's not our place to kill her.
Gordie: She'll squeal. It's what I'd do.
Robin: Not everyone's you.

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Wayne: Banding together in common weakness is what creates strength. It's the only way to deal with all the horrors in this world. It's why people get married and form friendships and reunite to relive the good old days.

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The Mr.: If this were loaded, you'd be pissin' your britches right about now.

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Gordie: Uh oh, Robbo's got Sasquatch on the brain.
Keaton: Yeah, how can you not, with hairy legs like that?

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Robin: You chloroformed him?
Keaton: Well, it was a plan B sort of thing. I knew he wouldn't go without a fight. There's your proof.
Robin: That's real date-rapist move right there, Keats...
Keaton: It's ether from the photography store. Besides, who knees a guy in the balls right when he wakes up?
Robin: Self-defense class.
Keaton: You're a monster.

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Robin: You know a broken watch is right twice a day.
Keaton: Yeah it is. And it's wrong every other time.

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Gordie: [laughing]I can't believe she pepper sprayed me.
Wayne: Well, you did point a gun at her while threatening to shoot her.
Gordie: [holds up his revolver]People listen better this way.
Wayne: Or they pepper spray you.

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Gordie: If I hadn't buried him, the last ten years would've been a little bit different. You and Keats get to go on your merry little way, live your lovely little lives. You know what I got? [beat]
Gordie: Guilt.

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Wayne: You don't know me any better than the way in which you know yourself. So who are you, Gordon Solomon?
Gordie: [beat]I'm Gordie Solomon, and I'm an alcoholic.

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Gordie: We figured we'd wait for ya.
Robin: To pay!
Keaton: To pay? [browses the menu]
Keaton: Oh gosh, let's see... Tap water and peanuts for everybody!
Robin: What a guy!
Keaton: I'm so generous.

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Wayne: This is wrong. We can't just pretend none of this happened. It's not something we can erase. This will always follow us...
Gordie: I had no choice. Right?
Keaton: Yeah. Right.
Wayne: You always have a choice. And this right here... this is a bad one.

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Gordie: Come on. I grabbed your tit, you grabbed Keaton's, now grab mine. To good ol' D.H. Lawrence!
Robin: There's really fucking something wrong with you.

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Keaton: So I just best-manned the shit outta this, huh?

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The Mrs.: Listen, when I first came here, I was even younger than you are now, and I didn't know the first thing about chickens. They were just a buncha dumb birds as far as I was concerned, but I filled this coop up with hens. And then I got myself one rooster. Well before you knew it he had pecked two of those hens to death and scared the livin' hell outta all the rest of 'em so they quit layin' their eggs. All it took was one rooster. And so I shot that rooster. I didn't see any reason to do otherwise.
Robin: You don't always have to shoot the rooster.

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Gordie: You took a drunk on the fuckin' Bourbon Trail. What were you fucking thinking?

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Keaton: It didn't make a difference whether we had the money or not. They thought we did without any proof or anything. You saw him, Gordie. You saw him, he went for that rifle, but you got to it first. He was gonna shoot me. You saved my life. You saved me. He was gonna kill me.
Gordie: I killed him...
Keaton: Yeah, but don't you get it? The legend was real. It was real. I can't fucking believe it myself. You wanted to come out into the woods and look for buried treasure. Well here you go! Buried fuckin' treasure. This right here, this is Truth with a capital T.

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Gordie: Arcadia.
Robin: I think we're gonna find it one day.
Gordie: I don't think the damn place exists. It's like fuckin' Sasquatch.

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