“Of Mice and Men” quotes

(1992)
Movie Of Mice and Men
Gary Sinise directed this movie in 1992
Title Of Mice and Men
Year 1992
Director Gary Sinise
Genre Drama
Plot – Two farm workers travel on the road to California during the Great Depression era. Lenny is a dim-witted giant, unaware of his dangerous destructive charge, while George is a kind of guardian angel who tries to protect his friend from his candid unawareness.
All actors – John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn, John Terry, Richard Riehle, Alexis Arquette, Joe Morton, Noble Willingham, Joe D'Angerio, Tuck Milligan
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  • “- George Milton: Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain't got no family and they don't belong no place. They got nothin' to look ahead to...
    - Lennie Small: But not us George. Tell about us.
    - George Milton: Well, we ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.”

    Gary Sinise - George Milton
    John Malkovich - Lennie Small
  • “- George Milton: Lennie! Listen to me, God damn it! Don't you even look at her! I don't care what she says or what she does, she's a rat trap if I ever seen one.
    - Lennie Small: But I wasn't doing nothing.
    - George Milton: No, but when she was shoving her legs around you weren't looking the other way neither. Keep away from her!”

    Gary Sinise - George Milton
    John Malkovich - Lennie Small
  • “A guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.”
    John Terry - Slim
    [Tag:motivation]
  • “- Lennie Small: I seen your light.
    - Crooks: Yeah, well, I got a right to have a light. Now I ain't wanted in those bunkhouses and you ain't wanted in my room.
    - Lennie Small: Why ain't you wanted?
    - Crooks: Because I'm black! And they say I stink. Well, I tell you - all of y'all stink to me!”

    John Malkovich - Lennie Small
    Joe Morton - Crooks
    [Tag:racism]
  • “- Slim: You travel around together?
    - George Milton: Yeah.
    - Slim: There ain't many guys travel around together. I don't know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world's scared of each other.”

    John Terry - Slim
    Gary Sinise - George Milton
  • “Why did you get killed? You ain't so little as the mice! George is never gonna let me tend the rabbits if he finds out you got killed!”

    John Malkovich - Lennie Small
    John Malkovich
    [Tag:animals, death]
  • “- Lennie Small: You said I was your cousin!
    - George Milton: That was a lie. If I was a relative of yours, I'd shoot myself.”

    John Malkovich - Lennie Small
    Gary Sinise - George Milton
    [Tag:lies, relatives]
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