Albuquerque Quotes in Nashville (1975)

Albuquerque: Now, if we don't -- we don't live peaceful, there's gonna be nothin' left in our graves except Clorox bottles and plastic fly swatters with red dots on 'em.

Albuquerque: See, what happened is, he made a million dollars on a fly swatter, because it had a red dot in the center.

Star: Fly swatter?

Albuquerque: That's right. Just a red dot. He was sittin' in the buffet, he was eatin', and he saw a woman and she was swattin' flies. And, uh, she... Uh, he said, "What makes the difference in fly swatters?" 'Cause it has to do with the industrial revolution.

Albuquerque: Well, I know it sounds arrogant, but I'm on my way to town, if I ever make it, to become a country-western singer or star.

Kenny Fraiser: Yeah? What are you gonna do if you don't?

Albuquerque: If I don't? I don't kn... Oh, I could always go into sales.

Kenny Fraiser: Like ladies' clothes? Like what you're wearing?

Albuquerque: No... I don't know. Well, I know all about trucks, so I'd go into trucking, I guess.

Kenny Fraiser: You're kidding me.

Albuquerque: No, I'm not kiddin' you. I'm in a truck enough. And I know how to fix motors and all that.

Kenny Fraiser: Nobody'd buy trucks from a girl.

Albuquerque: I been fixin' motors a long time. They'd buy 'em from me 'cause I know all about motors. Why do you say that? See, what's happenin' is, if I can't sell trucks and I can't go...

Kenny Fraiser: Nobody'd buy a truck from a girl.

Albuquerque: [Spots her husband's truck] I knew this was gonna happen. Don't say you saw me.

[Runs off]

Star: Hey, you haven't seen my wife, have ya? She's sort of ordinary-lookin'.

Kenny Fraiser: Uh-uh. Are you going into town?

Star: You're not one of them country singers, are ya?

Kenny Fraiser: No. Can you give me a ride?

Star: All right, get in. You look like a guy I was in the navy with. He wouldn't bathe, so we had to pee in his bed to get him discharged.