Tim Blake Nelson quotes
- From the movie: Flypaper
- From the movie: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“I'm not a devious man by nature... but when you're unarmed, your tactics might gonna be downright Archimedean.”
- From the movie: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- From the movie: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“Sir, it seems that you're are a no better a judge of human beings than you are a specimen of one. Just on a brief inventory I'd say you could use yourself a shave and a better disposition. And lastly, if you don't mind me aspersing your friends... a better class of drinking buddies.”
- From the movie: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“There's just gotta be a place up ahead where men ain't low-down and poker's played fair. If there weren't, what are all the songs about? I'll see y'all there. And we can sing together and shake our heads over all the meanness in the used-to-be.”
- From the movie: Minority Report
- From the movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
“You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.”
- La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
“Life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.”
- From the movie: Flypaper
“Shoot anything that moves... unless it's me.”
- From the movie: Syriana
- From the movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
“- Everett: What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy?
- Tommy Johnson: Well, he taught me to play this here guitar real good.
- Delmar O'Donnell: Oh son, for that you sold your everlasting soul?
- Tommy Johnson: Well, I wasn't usin' it.” - La trovi in Actors and Politics
“Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.”
“Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.”
- From the movie: Holes
“They all have their little nicknames, however I prefer to use the names their parents gave them, the names society will recognize them by.”
- From the movie: Leaves of Grass
“- Bolger: Do you believe in a higher power?
- Brady Kincaid: Yea, I do. I do. It's the only way to make sense of all this. Otherwise, it's just pure fucking chaos.
- Bolger: Like where we is created by him and he judges what we do?
- Brady Kincaid: Well, I think it's more like... like parallel lines.
- Bolger: Parallel lines?
- Brady Kincaid:...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
“- Delmar O'Donnell: This stew's awful good.
- Wash Hogwallop: [examining his fork] You think so? I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday... I'm afraid she's startin' to turn.” - From the movie: Syriana
“We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.”
- From the movie: The Good Girl
“If I were a woman, I'd be a slut. A lesbian slut.”
- From the movie: The Good Girl
- From the movie: Warm Springs
“You're gonna do great things, Franklin. This place has identity now, a purpose.”
- From the movie: Holes
“It smells like puke from a mule been 'ruminating on asparagus for two weeks.”
- From the movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
“- Everett: No, thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down.
- Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one apiece. We ran across a whole... gopher village.”
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