No Country for Old Men Quotes

Anton Chigurh: [indicating bag of cashews] How much?
Gas Station Proprietor: Sixty-nine cent.
Anton Chigurh: This. And the gas.
Gas Station Proprietor: Y'all gettin' any rain up your way?
Anton Chigurh: What way would that be?
Gas Station Proprietor: I seen you was from Dallas.
Anton Chigurh: What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't mean nothin' by it.
Anton Chigurh: Didn't mean nothin'.
Gas Station Proprietor: I was just passin' the time. If you don't wanna accept that I don't know what else to do for you. Will there be something else?
Anton Chigurh: I don't know. Will there?
Gas Station Proprietor: Is somethin' wrong?
Anton Chigurh: With what?
Gas Station Proprietor: With anything?
Anton Chigurh: Is that what you're asking me? Is there something wrong with anything?
Gas Station Proprietor: Will there be anything else?
Anton Chigurh: You already asked me that.
Gas Station Proprietor: Well... I need to see about closin'.
Anton Chigurh: See about closing.
Gas Station Proprietor: Yessir.
Anton Chigurh: What time do you close?
Gas Station Proprietor: Now. We close now.
Anton Chigurh: Now is not a time. What time do you close?

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Anton Chigurh: Step out of your car, please.

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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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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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Wendell: You know, there might not have been no money.
Ed Tom Bell: That's possible.
Wendell: But you don't believe it.
Ed Tom Bell: No. Probably I don't.
Wendell: It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell: If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.

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Wendell: You think this boy Moss has got any notion of the sorts of sons of bitches that're huntin' him?
Ed Tom Bell: I don't know, he ought to. He's seen the same things I've seen, and it's certainly made an impression on me.

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Llewelyn Moss : If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.
Carla Jean Moss : Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.
Llewelyn Moss : Well then I'll tell her myself.

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Anton Chigurh : What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor : Sir?
Anton Chigurh : The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas Station Proprietor : I don't know. I couldn't say. [ Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand ]
Anton Chigurh : Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor : Call it?
Anton Chigurh : Yes.
Gas Station Proprietor : For what?
Anton Chigurh : Just call it.
Gas Station Proprietor : Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton Chigurh : You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas Station Proprietor : I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton Chigurh : Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas Station Proprietor : No.
Anton Chigurh : 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor : Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton Chigurh : Everything.
Gas Station Proprietor : How's that?
Anton Chigurh : You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas Station Proprietor : Alright. Heads then. [ Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads ]
Anton Chigurh : Well done. [ the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out ]
Anton Chigurh : Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
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Carla Jean Moss : You don't have to do this.
Anton Chigurh : [ smiles ] People always say the same thing.
Carla Jean Moss : What do they say?
Anton Chigurh : They say, "You don't have to do this."
Carla Jean Moss : You don't.
Anton Chigurh : Okay. [ Chigurh flips a coin and covers it with his hand ]
Anton Chigurh : This is the best I can do. Call it.
Carla Jean Moss : I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
Anton Chigurh : Call it.
Carla Jean Moss : No. I ain't gonna call it.
Anton Chigurh : Call it.
Carla Jean Moss : The coin don't have no say. It's just you.
Anton Chigurh : Well, I got here the same way the coin did.

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[ first lines ]
Ed Tom Bell : I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carried one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville Hill here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."

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Nervous Accountant : Are you going to shoot me?
Anton Chigurh : That depends. Do you see me?

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[ Anton has just shot the Man who hires Wells in the throat, and is standing over his body ]
Anton Chigurh : [ to Nervous Accountant ] Who are you?
Nervous Accountant : Me?
Anton Chigurh : Yes.
Nervous Accountant : Nobody... accounting.
Anton Chigurh : He gave the Mexicans a receiver. [ Anton sighs ]
Nervous Accountant : He feels... he felt that the more people looking [ cut-off by Anton ]
Anton Chigurh : That's foolish. You pick the one right tool.
Nervous Accountant : I see. Are you going to shoot me?
Anton Chigurh : That depends. Do you see me?

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Carson Wells : [ sitting by bed ] Buenos Dias. I'm guessing this isn't the future you had planned for yourself when you first clapped eyes on that money. Don't worry, I'm not the man who's after you.
Llewelyn Moss : [ in bed ] I know that. I've seen him.
Carson Wells : You've seen him, and you're not dead?
Llewelyn Moss : What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?
Carson Wells : No, I wouldn't describe him as that.
Llewelyn Moss : How would you describe him?
Carson Wells : I guess I would say he doesn't have a sense of humor. His name is Chigurh.
Llewelyn Moss : Sugar?
Carson Wells : Chigurh, Anton Chigurh. Do you know how he found you?
Llewelyn Moss : Yeah, I know how he found me.
Carson Wells : Called a transponder.
Llewelyn Moss : Yeah, I know what it's called. He won't find me again.
Carson Wells : Not that way.
Llewelyn Moss : Not any way.
Carson Wells : Took me about three hours.
Llewelyn Moss : Yeah, well, I been immobile.
Carson Wells : No, you don't understand.

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Loretta Bell : How'd you sleep?
Ed Tom Bell : I don't know. Had dreams.
Loretta Bell : Well you got time for 'em now. Anythin' interesting?
Ed Tom Bell : They always is to the party concerned.
Loretta Bell : Ed Tom, I'll be polite.
Ed Tom Bell : Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...

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Wendell : We goin' in?
Ed Tom Bell : Gun out and up.
Wendell : [ Wendell draws his pistol ] What about yours?
Ed Tom Bell : I'm hidin' behind you.

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Ellis : Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.

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Wendell : That's very linear Sheriff.
Ed Tom Bell : Well, age will flatten a man.

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Ed Tom Bell : You ride Winston.
Wendell : You sure?
Ed Tom Bell : Oh I'm sure. Anything happens to Loretta's horse, I can tell ya I don't want to be the party that was on board.

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Ed Tom Bell : Now that's aggravatin'.
Wendell : Sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell : [ points to a bottle of milk ] Still sweatin'.
Wendell : Whoa, Sheriff! We just missed him! We gotta circulate this! On Radio!
Ed Tom Bell : Alright. What we circulate? Lookin' for a man who has recently drunk milk?

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Wendell : You know, there might not have been no money.
Ed Tom Bell : That's possible.
Wendell : But you don't believe it.
Ed Tom Bell : No. Probably I don't.
Wendell : It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff?
Ed Tom Bell : If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.

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Wendell : You think this boy Moss has got any notion of the sorts of sons of bitches that're huntin' him?
Ed Tom Bell : I don't know, he ought to. He's seen the same things I've seen, and it's certainly made an impression on me.

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Man who hires Wells : [ about Chigurh ] Just how dangerous is he?
Carson Wells : Compared to what? The bubonic plague?

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Anton Chigurh : [ indicating bag of cashews ] How much?
Gas Station Proprietor : Sixty-nine cent.
Anton Chigurh : This. And the gas.
Gas Station Proprietor : Y'all gettin' any rain up your way?
Anton Chigurh : What way would that be?
Gas Station Proprietor : I seen you was from Dallas.
Anton Chigurh : What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
Gas Station Proprietor : I didn't mean nothin' by it.
Anton Chigurh : Didn't mean nothin'.
Gas Station Proprietor : I was just passin' the time. If you don't wanna accept that I don't know what else to do for you. Will there be something else?
Anton Chigurh : I don't know. Will there?
Gas Station Proprietor : Is somethin' wrong?
Anton Chigurh : With what?
Gas Station Proprietor : With anything?
Anton Chigurh : Is that what you're asking me? Is there something wrong with anything?
Gas Station Proprietor : Will there be anything else?
Anton Chigurh : You already asked me that.
Gas Station Proprietor : Well... I need to see about closin'.
Anton Chigurh : See about closing.
Gas Station Proprietor : Yessir.
Anton Chigurh : What time do you close?
Gas Station Proprietor : Now. We close now.
Anton Chigurh : Now is not a time. What time do you close?

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Man who hires Wells : Did I say you could sit?
Carson Wells : No, but you strike me as a man who wouldn't want to waste his chair.

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Llewelyn Moss : [ talking over phone ] Hello?
Anton Chigurh : Yes?
Llewelyn Moss : Is uh, Carson Wells there?
Anton Chigurh : Not in the sense that you mean. You need to come see me.
Llewelyn Moss : Who is this?
Anton Chigurh : You know who it is. You need to talk to me.
Llewelyn Moss : I don't need to talk to you.
Anton Chigurh : I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?
Llewelyn Moss : Why would I care where you're going?
Anton Chigurh : I know where you are.
Llewelyn Moss : Yeah? Where am I?
Anton Chigurh : You're in the hospital across the river, but that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going? [ blood flows on the floor, and so Chigurh lifts his feet and rests them on the bed ]
Llewelyn Moss : Yeah, I know where you're going.
Anton Chigurh : Alright.
Llewelyn Moss : You know she won't be there.
Anton Chigurh : It doesn't make any difference where she is.
Llewelyn Moss : So what are you going up there for?
Anton Chigurh : You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?
Llewelyn Moss : Nope.
Anton Chigurh : I think you do. So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.

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Llewelyn Moss : Yeah, I'm going to bring you something, alright. I decided to make you a special project of mine. You ain't going have to come looking for me at all. [ Moss hangs up the phone ]

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Carla Jean Moss : Llewelyn?
Llewelyn Moss : Yeah?
Carla Jean Moss : What are you doing, baby?
Llewelyn Moss : I'm going out.
Carla Jean Moss : Going where?
Llewelyn Moss : There's something I forgot to do, but I'll be back.
Carla Jean Moss : And what are you going to do?
Llewelyn Moss : I'm fixin' to do something dumber than hell, but I'm going anyways.

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Anton Chigurh : I'm looking for Llewelyn Moss.
Desert Aire Manager : Did you go up to his trailer?
Anton Chigurh : Yes, I did.
Desert Aire Manager : Well, I'd say he's at work. Do you want to leave a message?
Anton Chigurh : Where does he work?
Desert Aire Manager : I can't say.
Anton Chigurh : Where does he work?
Desert Aire Manager : Sir, I ain't at liberty to give out no information about our residents.
Anton Chigurh : Where does he work?
Desert Aire Manager : Did you not hear me? We can't give out no information.

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Boy on Bike #2 : Look at that fucking bone.

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Wendell : Aw, hells bells. They even shot the dog!

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