Sling Blade (film) Quotes

Sling Blade (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Sling Blade completed its run in 1970.

It features Larry Meistrich as producer, Daniel Lanois in charge of musical score, and Barry Markowitz as head of cinematography.

Sling Blade (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Sling Blade (film) is 135 minutes long. Sling Blade (film) is distributed by Miramax Films.

The cast includes: Billy Bob Thornton as Karl, John Ritter as Vaughan Cunningham, Dwight Yoakam as Doyle, Lucas Black as Frank, Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers, Vic Chesnutt as Terence, Natalie Canerday as Linda, J. T. Walsh as Charles Bushman, James Hampton as Dr. Jerry Woolridge, Brent Briscoe as Scooter, Natalie Canerday as Linda Wheatley, Natalie Canerday as Melinda, John Ritter as Vaughan, and James Hampton as Mrs. Woolridge.

Sling Blade (film) Quotes

Dwight Yoakam as Doyle

• (Dwight Yoakam) "To call the police, you push 911 then just tell 'em to bring an ambulance, or a "hearst" if you're gonna kill me."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "You know what, by God?"
• (Natalie Canerday) "What?"
• (Dwight Yoakam) "I know what I oughta do tonight."
• (Natalie Canerday) "Please don't."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Mmm-hmm. I'm gonna call up Morris and have him get the band together. We're gonna have a party. Party our asses off. I'd love to show them that damn Karl. They'd get a real kick out of him. You know they would."
• (Natalie Canerday) "Please, Doyle, not tonight. They always stay until morning, I'll just give out."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "You ain't gotta do nothing, Linda. Just put some chips in a bowl and run ice out to us when we look low."
• (Lucas Black) "Last time you got angry and ran Morris and them off and told them to stay away from here."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "That ain't none of your damn business, besides, that's the way friends do one another. f*** it, I'm calling them up."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "What'cha doin' with that lawn mower blade Karl?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I aim to kill you with it."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "What's in the bag?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "This'n that. Tooth paste and whatnot."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "What's all them books?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Different ones. One of 'em is the Bible."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "Linda, go get my guitar. It's out there with that looney toon."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "Not that you two afflicted sumbitches know anything about this, you're sitting in a crew-cab duallie pickup. In some circles, this is considered a piece of automotive art."
• (John Ritter) "Are you sure you can drive? You've really had alot of alcohol."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "When you been drinking as long as me, Vaughan, you build up a tolerance. Here,"
• (Dwight Yoakam) "hide that between your legs for me."
• (Monty Johnson) "Hey Doyle, slow the f*** down."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "What in the hell you doin' with that hammer?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I don't rightly know. I just kinda woke up a-holding it."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "What the f*** you think he's doin' with that hammer?"

• (Morris) "Dots look good on paper. You don't sing them anyway, you're just showing your true Aries color now."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Stay out of my goddam face, you f***ing buzzard."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "Now get the f*** out now before I get too mad to turn back."
• (Vic Chesnutt) "What about our instruments?"
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Come here, you little prick. Come here, you little f***ing prick."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Get out. All y'all, get the f*** out. Come on, you motherf***ers."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Get the f*** out. Randy, you tuning son of a bitch, go f***ing practice, Randy."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Come on, Morris, you f***ing genius, get the f*** up and get the f*** out of here, Goddammit."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "Hey, Vaughan, I heard you been putting it on ol' Albert Sellers who works over at the funeral home."
• (John Ritter) "I know Albert. We're friends."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "No, I heard you're more than friends. I heard Dick Rivers come in there and caught the two of you all bowled up and going at it in the same room with poor Miss Ogletree, her dead as a doornail laid out on a gurney."
• (John Ritter) "That is ridiculous. That is just a total lie."

• (Monty Johnson) "This ain't right, Doyle. There IS something wrong with you."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Get the f*** out."
• (Monty Johnson) "Nobody wants to take this s***, Man."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "Your buddy Karl here is going. We can't be no normal family with him living in the garage and comin' in the damn bedroom at 4:00 in the morning, carryin' hammers and s***."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "Frank's a weak little kid. His daddy taught him how to be a p*****."
• (Lucas Black) "Stop it, Doyle. Don't talk about my daddy."
• (Dwight Yoakam) ""Don't talk about my daddy". Go on and get up outta here. Go out to the garage and let me be. Go on now, get."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "I don't mean to be so damned -- well, assholish I guess would be the word."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "If y'all don't shut up, I'm gonna go out of my mind. Besides, Karl here is liable to bust his spring. He's already off balance."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "Hey. What the God damn hell you doing, Karl? 'The f*** you doing up in the middle of the night?"
• (Natalie Canerday) "What you want, Hon?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I wanna be baptized."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Well get baptized then, I don't give a s***. Call up a f***in' preacher, Goddammit, we can't baptize ya."

• (Dwight Yoakam) "We don't got no god**** band. We don't need to f***ing practice, Randy. We don't no s***-ass manager neither. You motherf***ers. You all are a bunch of losers. I'm the only sane son-of-a-bitch here. So get the f*** out of my house now."
• (John Ritter) "It's not your house, Doyle, it's Linda's."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "I'll whip the dog s*** out of you, Vaughan. I will"
• (Dwight Yoakam) "f***ing kill you if you talk to me again."

• (Old Man) "I wish you'd all lay off for tonight. I can't hear myself think with that racket."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "Hey. HEY."
• (Old Man) "Knock it off or I'm calling the police."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "I told you three times already, the law's on my side. I play cards with J.D. Shelnut, chief of PO-lice. So kiss my ass, you old bastard."

Natalie Canerday as Melinda

• (Natalie Canerday) "Frank's always after a father figure and Lord knows Doyle ain't one with his mean ass."
• (John Ritter) "What about me?"
• (Natalie Canerday) "Frank doesn't really see you as a guy-guy."
• (John Ritter) "Oh, and Karl's a guy-guy?"

• (Natalie Canerday) "I'm gonna make some coffee. Karl, you want some coffee?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Coffee makes me nervous when I drink it. Mmm."

• (Natalie Canerday) "Hi, Karl, I'm on my lunch break. I got you these flowers that were on sale, cause they're not fresh. $2.99, plus by 10% employee discount, since I didn't bring you anything on our date last night. Well, I just thought I'd bring them to you. I enjoyed walking with you. I got a blister the size of a quarter on my heel. Well, see you some time I guess."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Blisters sure can hurt."

J. T. Walsh as Charles Bushman

• (J. T. Walsh) "A Mercury is a good car. That's the car I was driving that day. I've had a lot of cars. Different kinds. Lot's of different kinds of cars. She was standing; this girl; on the side of the street where there was this chicken stand, wasn't the Colonel but it was a chicken stand nonetheless. I pulled the Mercury up right along side her and rolled down the window, see, by electric power. She had on a leather skirt and had a lot of hair on her arms. I like that a lot. That means a big bush. I like a big bush. She says, "Are you dating?" You know, so I said, "Sure". She gets in and we pull off to a remote location that was comfortable for both she and I. She says, "How much do you wanna spend?", I said, "Whatever it will take to see that bush of yours because I know it's a big one". She says, "Twenty five dollars". That's not chicken feed to a working man so I produce the $25, she puts it in her shoe, pulls up her skirt and there before me lay this thin, crooked, uncircumcised penis."
• (J. T. Walsh) "You can imagine how bad I wanted my $25 back, huh?"

• (J. T. Walsh) "You gotta make something explode to really understand it. You gotta examine all those tiny particles while they're still on fire."

• (J. T. Walsh) "There was a young man by the name of John Leggit Hunter who ran a filling station business, a good filling station business and he's one of these young men we all come across in life, I'm sure you've come across 'em, who did not deserve what he had and what he had was a beautiful young bride named Sarah. She was a Georgia peach. In fact, she was the picture I had in my mind of the perfect woman so I took it upon myself to take her away from John Leggit Hunter who did not deserve her. Oh, I don't know if I mentioned this but he was a Frenchman who claimed to be an Englishman. It took a lot of strong nylon cord to get her away from him because she was a fighter as well as being a Georgia peach."

• (J. T. Walsh) "A shovel just makes too god****ed much racket."

Brent Briscoe as Scooter

• (Bill Cox) "Hey, Scooter, did I tell you the one about the two ol' boys pissing off a bridge?"
• (Brent Briscoe) "I don't believe you did."
• (Bill Cox) "Well, there were these two ol' boys and they hung their peckers off a bridge to piss. One ol' boy from California, the other from Arkansas. The ol' boy from California says, "Boy, this water's cold", and the ol' boy from Arkansas says, "Yeah, and it's deep too". Get it?"
• (Brent Briscoe) "That's a good one. I do believe you told me that one before. I've heard that one a bunch."
• (Bill Cox) "Yep. That's classic."

John Ritter as Vaughan Cunningham

• (John Ritter) "Listen, everyone, I've had a few glasses of wine and that tends to make me emotional. It came over me in a rush. I just want you to know that I care about each and every person at this table."
• (Natalie Canerday) "Thank you, Vaughan. We care about you too, don't we?"
• (Albert) "Yes."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Yes, Sir."

• (John Ritter) "Please don't tell anybody at the store that Albert was here. You know how this town is. Everybody spreads cruel rumors."
• (Natalie Canerday) "You mean about you and Albert being that way? I think everybody at the store already knows about it. Maureen Ledbetter told the most awful story about why you ain't allowed at the First Baptist Church no more."

• (John Ritter) "I'm just going to say it. I'm gay. Does that surprise you that I'm gay? You know what gay is, don't you?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I don't reckon."
• (John Ritter) "Homosexual. I like men sexually."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Not funny 'ha-ha', funny queer."
• (John Ritter) "Well that's a very offensive way to put it. You shouldn't say that. You were taught that, weren't you?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I've heard it said that a-way."

• (John Ritter) "You always seem to be deep in thought. Tell me, what are you thinking right now?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I was thinkin', I'm gonna take me some of these taters home with me."
• (John Ritter) "How about before that?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Well, let me think -- I was thinkin' I could use me another couple cans'o that potted meat if ya got any extree."

• (John Ritter) "I don't understand."
• (Morris) "Exactly the point, my young level-headed friend."
• (John Ritter) "I don't get it."
• (Morris) "Well, I rest my case."

• (John Ritter) "Have you knocked on the door yet?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "No, Sir, not yet."
• (John Ritter) "How long have you been standing here?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Quite a spell, I reckon."

• (John Ritter) "They aren't moving too well, but I'll tell you what, I'll give a couple cans free to the right kid."
• (Lucas Black) "I don't like potted meat. Daddy used to say they was made out of lips, peckers and intestines."
• (Natalie Canerday) "Frank, don't talk that way."
• (Natalie Canerday) "Who's that strange looking man? He follow you in here?"

Lucas Black as Frank

• (Lucas Black) "Ever think of killing yourself on purpose like my daddy done?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I studied about it. The Bible says you ought not to. It says if you do that, you go off to Hades. Some folks call it Hell, I call it Hades."

• (Lucas Black) "Mama's got a boyfriend now. His name is Doyle Hargraves. He works construction so he makes a pretty good living, but he don't help Mama out with any money though. He ain't no good. He's mean to her. He don't like me at all. Mama says it's 'cause he's jealous that I belong to my Daddy instead of him. He spends the night at our house sometimes and he's got his own house, somebody told me it's where he can have more girlfriends. I like it on the nights he ain't at our house. I ain't so nervous then."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "How come her still being girlfriends and all with him if he's mean to her?"
• (Lucas Black) "She says it's for the times he's good to her. She's lonely since Daddy died, sometimes she says she don't know why. He threatened to kill her if she ever left him. My daddy would kill him if he were still here and somebody was mean to Mama. Vaughan, he's real good to Mama. Vaughan that you met. But he's not able to do anything to Doyle. He's funny, you know. Not funny "Ha-Ha", funny queer. He likes to go with men instead of women. That makes him not able to fight too good. He sure is nice, though. He's from St. Louis, people who are queer get along better in a big town. I wish he liked to go with women, I'd rather he be Mama's boyfriend than Doyle."

• (Lucas Black) "Hey Karl, what are you carryin' around them books for?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I ain't got no place to set 'em down."

• (Lucas Black) "You ever have any brothers or sisters growing up?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I had one there for a little while. But, uh, it didn't get old enough for me to play with it."
• (Lucas Black) "Why not? It die?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Yes, Sir."
• (Lucas Black) "Why?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "It got born too early. My mother and father made it come out too early some how or other."
• (Lucas Black) "So it died when it came out?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "My daddy came out to the shed and got me. He said, "Here, take this and throw it away", and he handed me a towel with something or another in it. Well I started for that barrel and I opened up the towel 'cause there was a noise. Something a-moving around in there. The towel was all bloody-like all around it there. It was a lil' ol' baby not no bigger than a squirrel."
• (Lucas Black) "A girl or a boy?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "It was a little ol' boy."
• (Lucas Black) "You threw it in the trash barrel?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Well that didn't seem right to me, so I went in the shed and got me a shoe box and emptied out all the washers and nuts and screws and whatnot that were in it and I takened the little fellar and put him inside the box and buried him right there in a corner of the yard. That seemed more proper to me, I reckon."
• (Lucas Black) "Was it still alive when you buried it?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I heared it a-cryin' through that box."
• (Lucas Black) "That don't seem right. Seems like you would have kept him and taken care of him if he was your brother."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I wasn't but 6 or 8. I don't reckon I knew what to do. I didn't know how to care for no baby. My mother and father didn't want him and they learned me to do what they told me. These days I reckon it's better to give him back to the Good Lord anyhow."

• (Lucas Black) "I'd like to kill that son-of-a-bitch. I hate him."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "You ought not talk that way. You just a boy."

Billy Bob Thornton as Karl

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "There was a boy. We made friends."
• (J. T. Walsh) "Ha ha, I'll bet you did. 'Course I was never bent that way, I was always bent the other way."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I'm your boy."
• (Karl's Father) "I ain't got no boy."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I'm your oldest boy. Name of Karl."
• (Karl's Father) "I ain't got no boy."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "They turned me loose from the nervous hospital. 'Said I was well. I got hired on by a Mr. Bill Cox fixing lawnmowers and whatnot. That grass out there in the yard has grown up quite a bit. I reckon I might cut it for you."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Reckon you make me some biscuits."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I don't reckon you have to go with women to be a good daddy to a boy. You been real square-dealin' with me. The Bible says two men ought not lay together. But I don't reckon the Good Lord would send anybody like you to Hades. That Frank, he lives inside of his own heart. That's an awful big place to live in. You take good care of that boy."
• (John Ritter) "I will. Karl?"

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I like them French fried potaters."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Yes, ma'am. I've killed Doyle Hargraves with a lawnmower blade. Yes, ma'am, I'm right sure of it. I hit him two good whacks in the head with it. That second one just plum near cut his head in two -- It's a lil' ol' white house on the corner of Vine Street and some other street. There's a pick-up truck out front that says "Doyle Hargraves Construction" on it. Doyle said besides sending the police, you might wanna send an ambulance or a "hearst". I'll be sitting here, waiting on ye."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I reckon it tastes alright."
• (Lucas Black) "You really think it's got peckers in there?"
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "You know better than that. You ought not say that word."
• (Lucas Black) "It smells funny."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Yeah, it's pretty loud. Looky there. I believe you right. I believe I see one right in there."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Reckon what you like to eat in there?"
• (Frosty Cream Employee) "Well, the French fries are pretty good."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "French fried potaters?"
• (Frosty Cream Employee) "Yeah, French fries."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "How much you want for'em?"
• (Frosty Cream Employee) "They're.60 for medium and.75 for large."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "'Reckon I'll have me some of the big 'uns."
• (Frosty Cream Employee) "All right, then, one large French fries?"

• (Karl's Father) "I told you I ain't got no boy, now why don't you get on outta here and let me be. You ain't no kin to me."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I learned to read some. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it. Them stories you and Mama told me ain't in there. You ought not done that to your boy. I studied on killing you. Studied on it quite a bit. But I reckon there ain't no need for it if all you're gonna do is sit there in that chair. You'll be dead soon enough and the world 'll be shut of ya. You ought not killed my little brother, he should've had a chance to grow up. He woulda had fun some time."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "There were these two fellars standin' on a bridge, a-goin' to the bathroom. One fellar said, "The water's cold" and the other fellar said, "The water's deep". I believe one fella come from Arkansas. Get it?"

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Just 'cause I ain't gonna be around no more, maybe, don't mean that I don't care for you."
• (Lucas Black) "I care 'bout you too, but you'll be around. Don't say that."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Doesn't matter where I was to be. We'll always be friends. You and me made friends right off the bat. Don't nobody ever change that. I kindly want to put my arm around you, then I'm gonna get up out of here and leave."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I love you, boy."

• (Bill Cox) "Karl, see if you can figure out what's wrong with this. It won't crank up and everything seems to be put together right."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "It ain't got no gas in it."

James Hampton as Dr. Jerry Woolridge

• (James Hampton) "Karl, I hear Jerry's taking you somewhere else tomorrow."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I don't reckon I know nobody named Jerry."
• (James Hampton) "She's talking about me, Karl, that's my first name."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "He's carrying me to look for work over in Millsburg where I's borned."

• (James Hampton) "You sleep with your mama tonight. I'm gonna sleep with your brother so Karl can have your room."
• (Daughter) "Why?"
• (James Hampton) "'Cause he's company."

• (Marsha Dwiggins) "Where will he go?"
• (James Hampton) "I think he's going back to Millsburg."
• (Marsha Dwiggins) "Will he be supervised?"
• (James Hampton) "About as much as everyone else, I guess."

Vic Chesnutt as Terence

• (Vic Chesnutt) "We wrote one last night outside the mini mart. Morris called it "Stuart Drives A Comfortable Car" and then like in country songs, you know, in parentheses it says "There's Usually Someone in the Trunk." And, and um, I came up with a tune just a hummin'."
• (Dwight Yoakam) "See, you don't want to question the genius, Vaughan. Morris here is a modern-day poet, kinda like in olden times."
• (Morris) "Yeah, I got a new tune in composition entitled "The Thrill." And it goes somethin' like this: "I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul." Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul. And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of; -brrrrrr.; -mankind." That was a damn good song, wasn't it Doyle?"

• (Vic Chesnutt) "I don't think that's right. I believe the "Dot Dot Dot" come between "Medula" and "Oblongota"."
• (Vic Chesnutt) "Well, it did."
• (Morris) "The dots are where I say they are. Melody and tune, that's your trade, Terence. You're a tunesmith."

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