No Country for Old Men Quotes

"Managerial" Victim #2 : [ to Chigurh ] Mind riding bitch?

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"Managerial" Victim #1 : That's a dead dog.
Anton Chigurh : Yes it is.

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Boy on Bike #2 : Mister? You got a bone stickin' out of your arm.
Anton Chigurh : Let me just sit here a minute.

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Carla Jean Moss : Where'd you get the pistol?
Llewelyn Moss : At the gettin' place.
Carla Jean Moss : Did you buy that gun?
Llewelyn Moss : No. I found it.
Carla Jean Moss : Llewelyn!
Llewelyn Moss : What? Quit hollerin'.
Carla Jean Moss : What'd you give for that thing?
Llewelyn Moss : You don't need to know everything, Carla Jean.
Carla Jean Moss : I need to know that.
Llewelyn Moss : You keep runnin' that mouth I'm gonna' take you in the back and screw ya'.
Carla Jean Moss : Big talk.
Llewelyn Moss : Keep it up.
Carla Jean Moss : Fine. I don't wanna' know. I don't even wanna' know where you been all day.
Llewelyn Moss : That'll work.

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Loretta Bell : Be careful.
Ed Tom Bell : I always am.
Loretta Bell : Don't get hurt.
Ed Tom Bell : I never do.
Loretta Bell : Don't hurt no one.
Ed Tom Bell : [ smiles ] Well. If you say so.

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Carson Wells : [ Wells sits back and studies Moss ] What do you do?
Llewelyn Moss : I'm retired.
Carson Wells : What did you do?
Llewelyn Moss : Welder.
Carson Wells : Acetylene? Mig? Tig?
Llewelyn Moss : Any of it. If it can be welded I can weld it.
Carson Wells : Cast iron?
Llewelyn Moss : Yeah.
Carson Wells : I don't mean braze.
Llewelyn Moss : I didn't say braze.
Carson Wells : Pot metal?
Llewelyn Moss : [ annoyed ] What did I say?

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Llewelyn Moss : Medico... por favor.

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Llewelyn Moss : [ after finding the drug crime scene ] ... Where's the last guy? Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one.

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Carla Jean Moss : What's in the satchel?
Llewelyn Moss : It's full of money.
Carla Jean Moss : [ sarcastically ] Yeah, that'll be the day.

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Carla Jean Moss : I got a bad feeling, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn Moss : Well I got a good feeling, so that should even out.

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Wendell : [ referring to the dead bodies in the desert ] How come you reckon the coyotes ain't been at them?
Ed Tom Bell : I don't know. Supposedly, a coyote won't eat a Mexican.

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Ed Tom Bell : But I think once you quit hearing "sir" and "ma'am," the rest is soon to foller.

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Carla Jean Moss : Sheriff, was that a true story about Charlie Walser?
Ed Tom Bell : Who's Charlie Walser? Oh! Well... uh... a true story? I couldn't swear to every detail but it's certainly true that it is a story.

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Ed Tom Bell : You know Charlie Walser? Has the place east of Sanderson? Well you know how they used to slaughter beeves, hit 'em with a maul right here to stun 'em... and then up and slit their throats? Well here Charlie has one trussed up and all set to drain him and the beef comes to. It starts thrashing around, six hundred pounds of very pissed-off livestock if you'll pardon me... Charlie grabs his gun there to shoot the damn thing in the head but what with the swingin' and twistin' it's a glance-shot and ricochets around and comes back hits Charlie in the shoulder. You go see Charlie, he still can't reach up with his right hand for his hat... Point bein', even in the contest between man and steer the issue is not certain.

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Carson Wells : Call me when you've had enough. I can even let you keep a little of the money.
Llewelyn Moss : If I was cuttin' deals, why wouldn't I go deal with this guy Chigurh?
Carson Wells : No no. No. You don't understand. You can't make a deal with him. Even if you gave him the money he'd still kill you. He's a peculiar man. You could even say that he has principles. Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that. He's not like you. He's not even like me.
Llewelyn Moss : He don't talk as much as you, I give him points for that.

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Anton Chigurh : And you know what's going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.
Carson Wells : You go to hell.
Anton Chigurh : Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Carson Wells : Do you have any idea how goddamn crazy you are?
Anton Chigurh : You mean the nature of this conversation?
Carson Wells : I mean the nature of you.

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Ed Tom Bell : How many of those things you got now?
Ellis : Cats? Several. Well, depends what you mean by got. Some are half-wild, and some are just outlaws.

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Ed Tom Bell : That man that shot you died in prison.
Ellis : Angola. Yeah...
Ed Tom Bell : What you'd done he had been released?
Ellis : Oh, I dunno. Nothing. Wouldn't be no point in it.
Ed Tom Bell : I'm kindly surprised to hear you say that.
Ellis : Well all the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it. Your granddad never asked me to sign on as a deputy.

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Ed Tom Bell : [ talking to Ellis ] I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come inta my life somehow. And he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does.

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Llewelyn Moss : And by anybody I mean any swingin' dick.

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Ed Tom Bell : Here last week they found this couple out in California. They rent out rooms for old people, kill'em, bury'em in the yard, cash their social security checks. Well, they'd tortur'em first, I don't know why. Maybe the television set was broke.

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Carson Wells : I was wondering...
Man who hires Wells : Yes?
Carson Wells : Could you validate my parking ticket?
Man who hires Wells : An attempt at humor, I suppose.
Carson Wells : I'm sorry... You know, I counted the floors to this building from the street.
Man who hires Wells : [ sighs ] And?
Carson Wells : There's one missing.
Man who hires Wells : [ sarcastically ] We'll look into it.

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Carson Wells : Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
Anton Chigurh : You mean the nature of this conversation?
Carson Wells : I mean the nature of *you*.

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Anton Chigurh : Step out of your car, please.

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Carla Jean's Mother : It's not often you see a Mexican in a suit.

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Ed Tom Bell : The motel in Del Rio?
Wendell : Yes, sir. None of the three had I.D. on 'em, but they're tellin' me all three is Mexican... was Mexicans.
Ed Tom Bell : There's a question, whether they stopped being and when.
Wendell : Yes, sir.

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El Paso Sheriff : Yea, well, none of that explains your man though.
Ed Tom Bell : Uh-huh.
El Paso Sheriff : He's just a goddamn homicidal lunatic, Ed Tom.
Ed Tom Bell : I'm not sure he's a lunatic.
El Paso Sheriff : Yea well what would you call him?
Ed Tom Bell : Well, sometimes I think he's pretty much a ghost.
El Paso Sheriff : Oh he's real all right.
Ed Tom Bell : Oh yea.
El Paso Sheriff : Yea all that over at the Eagle Hotel? Huh, it's beyond everything.
Ed Tom Bell : Yea. Got some hard bark on him.
El Paso Sheriff : Well... , well that don't hardly say it. He shoots the desk clerk one day, walks right back in the next and shoots a retired army colonel.

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Boot Salesman : [ Moss walks in wearing his hospital robe ] How those Larry's holdin' up?
Llewelyn Moss : Uh, oh, good. Good! I need everything else.
Boot Salesman : OK.
Llewelyn Moss : Lotta people come in here without any clothes on?
Boot Salesman : No sir, it's unusual.

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Anton Chigurh : Would you hold still, please, sir?

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Carla Jean's Mother : And I always seen this is what it would come to. Three years ago I pre-visioned it.
Carla Jean Moss : It ain't even three years we been married.
Carla Jean's Mother : Three years ago I said them very words. No and Good.
Cabbie at Bus Station : Yes ma'am.
Carla Jean's Mother : Now here we are? Ninety degree heat. I got the cancer. And look at this. Not even a home to go to.
Cabbie at Bus Station : Yes ma'am .
Carla Jean's Mother : We're goin to El Paso Texas. You know how many people I know in El Paso Texas?
Cabbie at Bus Station : No ma'am.
Carla Jean's Mother : [ She holds up thumb and forefinger curled to make an O ] That's how many. Ninety degree heat.

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