“Used Cars” quotes

(1980)
Movie Used Cars
Robert Zemeckis directed this movie in 1980
Title Used Cars
Year 1980
Director Robert Zemeckis
Genre Comedy
Plot – Rudi Russian is a car salesman and needs money to compete for the Senate elections. He asks his boss to support Luke Fuchs, who has promised him ten thousand US dollars. However Roy, Luke's brother and owner of the retailer in front of Luke's, tries in every way to hinder them. He agrees with the mayor for the construction of the new highway, which should rise just over the property of his brother.
All actors – Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae, Deborah Harmon, Joe Flaherty, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Michael Talbott, Harry Northup, Alfonso Arau, Al Lewis
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  • “- Al's Kid: Hey, look. Bare tits!
    - Al's Wife: That's disgusting! Oh, I don't want my children to see this!”

    Clint Lilley - Al's Kid
    Jan Sandwich - Al's Wife
  • “For uttering those contemptuous words in my presences, I'm goin' to have your balls in a sling.”
    Al Lewis - Judge Harrison
    [Tag:contempt]
  • “- Rudy: You've seen how bad business is. Thanks to Fuchs, our name is mud! Look... we had nuns, protesting out front when I got here this morning.
    - Jeff: Nuns?
    - Rudy: Yeah. I had to have Jim turn the firehose on them.
    - Big Jim: And I knocked them motherfuckers right on they asses, too.”

    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
    Gerrit Graham - Jeff
    Frank McRae - Jim the Mechanic
    [Tag:nuns, protest]
  • “- Big Jim: I ain't never sold no damn cars before.
    - Rudy: It's easy Jim. All you have to do is get them in that car. Nothing sells a car better than a car itself. Now remember this you have to get their confidence, get their friendship, get their trust. Then get their money.”

    Frank McRae - Jim the Mechanic
    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
  • “- Rudy: Manuel! What the hell are you using, water based paint?
    - Manuel: Sure. How much rain do we get around here anyway? If you don't like these, I'll get you some others. Here is my inventory.
    - Rudy: Manuel, this is a picture of 250 cars. I can't make a deal on a picture. Take these around back and I'll think of something.”

    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
    Alfonso Arau - Manuel
    [Tag:cars, painting]
  • “- Luke Fuchs: You're lookin' at one of the finest automobiles on this lot. Y'know, I rebuilt that engine with my own two hands.
    - Mickey: Does it run?
    - Luke Fuchs: Does it run? Like a dream.
    - Mickey: Well, old man... for $2400, it better run like a wet dream.”

    Jack Warden - Luke Fuchs
    Michael Talbott - Mickey
    [Tag:cars, dreams, money]
  • “- Big Jim: See the nice red upholstery?
    - Mr. Books: Yes, nice, very nice.
    - Big Jim: Here, feel it.
    - Mr. Books: I don't want to feel it.
    - Big Jim: Feel it, I want you to get in the car and feel it.
    - Mr. Books: I don't want to get in the car.
    - Big Jim: Awww, get in the mother-fuckin' car man!”

    Frank McRae - Jim the Mechanic
    Gene Blakely - Mr. Books
  • “- Sam Slaton: Remember that colored kid that got caught stealing a case of beer?
    - Roy L. Fuchs: Billy Ray? Billy Ray Washington?
    - Sam Slaton: Hangin' Judge Harrison gave him thirty five years hard labor!”

    Joe Flaherty - Sam Slaton
    Jack Warden - Roy L. Fuchs
    [Tag:injustice, theft]
  • “- Jeff: For Christ's sake, we're fuckin' with the President of the United States.
    - Rudy: He fucks with us, doesn't he?”

    Gerrit Graham - Jeff
    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
  • - Barbara Jane Fuchs: Come down and see the, uh, mile of cars we have on our lot.
    - Rudy: Did she just say "mile of cars"? She said she had a "mile of cars".
    - Big Jim: That's the most blatant claim of false advertising I ever heard in my life.

    Deborah Harmon - Barbara Fuchs
    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
    Frank McRae - Jim the Mechanic
    [Tag:advertising, lies]
  • “- Roy L. Fuchs: I'd like to talk to my brother.
    - Rudy: Well, you're gonna have to talk kinda loud. He left for Miami late last night.
    - Roy L. Fuchs: Miami?
    - Rudy: Yeah. Miami Beach.
    - Roy L. Fuchs: Miami Beach?
    - Jeff: Florida.
    - Roy L. Fuchs: I know where the fuck Miami Beach is, dummy.”

    Jack Warden - Roy L. Fuchs
    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
    Gerrit Graham - Jeff
  • “- Rudy: Luke told me, if you came around here, to have you arrested for trespassing. Now, are you going to leave, or are we going to have to call the cops?
    - Jeff: Yeah, do we have to call the cops?
    - Roy L. Fuchs: What are you, a fucking parrot?”

    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
    Gerrit Graham - Jeff
    Jack Warden - Roy L. Fuchs
    [Tag:scorn, threat]
  • “Real grinders... tougher to close than their parents!”

    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
    [Tag:children]
  • “Don't let the little head do the thinking for the big head.”
    Gerrit Graham - Jeff
    [Tag:intelligence]
  • “- Luke Fuchs: $10,000. Is that all it takes to be elected senator these days.
    - Rudy: Well, that's more like a down payment. After I'm elected its 50-50 on all the graft I take.”

    Jack Warden - Luke Fuchs
    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
  • “- Jeff: No-one's going to believe he went to Miami, nobody goes to Miami!
    - Rudy: Old people go to Miami, he's old isn't he? Where do you want him to go, Aspen?
    - Jeff: Aspen? Fuck Aspen, this crate won't go around the block...
    - Big Jim: The fuck it won't! This motherfucker runs!”

    Gerrit Graham - Jeff
    Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
    Frank McRae - Jim the Mechanic
  • “- FBI Inspector: You want to give me that again?
    - Jeff: Uh, well, yes. As I say, Inspector, I heard this large explosion and I rushed out, I couldn't tell what was going on. I saw the car over there in flames and all these strange little characters, you know, with towels on their heads, weird little goatees and stuff, running around yelling: ...” (continue)
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    Will MacMillan - Police Sergeant
    Gerrit Graham - Jeff
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