“Motel Hell” quotes

“- Ida Smith: You look good enough to eat.
- Guy Robaire: I hope so! Listen, you want me to tie you up, or you want to tie me up?
- Ida Smith: Oh, I'll tie you up.
- Guy Robaire: All right, tie me up.
- Edith Olson: Hey, you do that pretty good. What is this, dog style?
- Vincent Smith: No ma'am, hog.”
Nancy Parsons - Ida Smith
Dick Curtis - Guy Robaire
Elaine Joyce - Edith Olson
Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith

“- Vincent Smith: Shooting out the tires or chains dressed across the highway and the way we had you lying by the side of the road next to the old Chevy we set on fire. You know what I mean, the traps!
- Ida Smith: Oh sure! But how come they're so important to you?
- Vincent Smith: Well, because they give me a chance to be creative.
- Ida Smith:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith
Nancy Parsons - Ida Smith

“There's too many people in the world and not enough food. Now this takes care of both problems at the same time.”

Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith

“Meat's meat, and a man's gotta eat.”

Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith

“Come on girl, haven't you ever cleaned a fish? You know there's nothing cruel about what I'm doing here. I treat most of my stock better than farmers treat their animals. I don't feed 'em chemicals or hormones. When you consider the way the world is today, there's no question I'm doing a lot of them a big favor.”

Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith

“- Ida Smith: Funny lookin' critters, aren't they, Vincent?
- Vincent Smith: Yeah maybe so. But you know as well as I do. It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters!”
Nancy Parsons - Ida Smith
Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith

“Sometimes I wonder about the karmic implications of these actions.”

Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith

“- Vincent Smith: We had this old dog, you see, and it used to bother granny barking through her naps and all that so one day she asked me to shush it for her. Ha! I shushed it all right.
- Ida Smith: Yeah, he sure did. He smoked that old dog just like a hog.”
Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith
Nancy Parsons - Ida Smith