Anton Chigurh Quotes in No Country for Old Men (2007)

Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss.

Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?

Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.

Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.

[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]

Anton Chigurh: Call it.

Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?

Anton Chigurh: Yes.

Gas Station Proprietor: For what?

Anton Chigurh: Just call it.

Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.

Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.

Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.

Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?

Gas Station Proprietor: No.

Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.

Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.

Anton Chigurh: Everything.

Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?

Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.

Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.

[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]

Anton Chigurh: Well done.

[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]

Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.

Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?

Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.

[Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out]

Carla Jean Moss: You don't have to do this.

Anton Chigurh: [smiles] People always say the same thing.

Carla Jean Moss: What do they say?

Anton Chigurh: They say, "You don't have to do this."

Carla Jean Moss: You don't.

Anton Chigurh: Okay.

[Chigurh flips a coin and covers it with his hand]

Anton Chigurh: This is the best I can do. Call it.

Carla Jean Moss: I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.

Anton Chigurh: Call it.

Carla Jean Moss: No. I ain't gonna call it.

Anton Chigurh: Call it.

Carla Jean Moss: The coin don't have no say. It's just you.

Anton Chigurh: Well, I got here the same way the coin did.

Anton Chigurh: [indicating bag of cashews] How much?

Gas Station Proprietor: Sixty-nine cent.

Anton Chigurh: This. And the gas.

Gas Station Proprietor: Y'all gettin' any rain up your way?

Anton Chigurh: What way would that be?

Gas Station Proprietor: I seen you was from Dallas.

Anton Chigurh: What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't mean nothin' by it.

Anton Chigurh: Didn't mean nothin'.

Gas Station Proprietor: I was just passin' the time. If you don't wanna accept that I don't know what else to do for you. Will there be something else?

Anton Chigurh: I don't know. Will there?

Gas Station Proprietor: Is somethin' wrong?

Anton Chigurh: With what?

Gas Station Proprietor: With anything?

Anton Chigurh: Is that what you're asking me? Is there something wrong with anything?

Gas Station Proprietor: Will there be anything else?

Anton Chigurh: You already asked me that.

Gas Station Proprietor: Well... I need to see about closin'.

Anton Chigurh: See about closing.

Gas Station Proprietor: Yessir.

Anton Chigurh: What time do you close?

Gas Station Proprietor: Now. We close now.

Anton Chigurh: Now is not a time. What time do you close?

Nervous Accountant: Are you going to shoot me?

Anton Chigurh: That depends. Do you see me?

Anton Chigurh: And you know what's going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.

Carson Wells: You go to hell.

Anton Chigurh: [Chuckles] Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Carson Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are?

Anton Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversation?

Carson Wells: I mean the nature of you.

Llewelyn Moss: [talking over phone] Hello?

Anton Chigurh: Yes?

Llewelyn Moss: Is uh, Carson Wells there?

Anton Chigurh: Not in the sense that you mean. You need to come see me.

Llewelyn Moss: Who is this?

Anton Chigurh: You know who it is. You need to talk to me.

Llewelyn Moss: I don't need to talk to you.

Anton Chigurh: I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?

Llewelyn Moss: Why would I care where you're going?

Anton Chigurh: I know where you are.

Llewelyn Moss: Yeah? Where am I?

Anton Chigurh: You're in the hospital across the river, but that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going?

Llewelyn Moss: [blood flows on the floor, and so Chigurh lifts his feet and rests them on the bed] Yeah, I know where you're going.

Anton Chigurh: Alright.

Llewelyn Moss: You know she won't be there.

Anton Chigurh: It doesn't make any difference where she is.

Llewelyn Moss: So what are you going up there for?

Anton Chigurh: You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?

Llewelyn Moss: Nope.

Anton Chigurh: I think you do. So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.

Anton Chigurh: Would you hold still, please, sir?

"Managerial" Victim #1: That's a dead dog.

Anton Chigurh: Yes it is.

Anton Chigurh: Step out of your car, please.

Anton Chigurh: I'm looking for Llewelyn Moss.

Desert Aire Manager: Did you go up to his trailer?

Anton Chigurh: Yes, I did.

Desert Aire Manager: Well, I'd say he's at work. Do you want to leave a message?

Anton Chigurh: Where does he work?

Desert Aire Manager: I can't say.

Anton Chigurh: Where does he work?

Desert Aire Manager: Sir, I ain't at liberty to give out no information about our residents.

Anton Chigurh: Where does he work?

Desert Aire Manager: Did you not hear me? We can't give out no information.

Carla Jean Moss: I ain't got the money. What little I had is long gone, and there's bills aplenty to pay yet. I buried my mother today. Can't pay for that neither.

Anton Chigurh: I wouldn't worry about it.

Carla Jean Moss: I need to sit down.

[Anton has just shot the Man who hires Wells in the throat, and is standing over his body]

[to Nervous Accountant]

Anton Chigurh: Who are you?

Nervous Accountant: Me?

Anton Chigurh: Yes.

Nervous Accountant: Nobody... accounting.

Anton Chigurh: He gave the Mexicans a receiver.

[Anton sighs]

Nervous Accountant: He feels... he felt that the more people looking

[cut-off by Anton]

Anton Chigurh: That's foolish. You pick the one right tool.

Nervous Accountant: I see. Are you going to shoot me?

Anton Chigurh: That depends. Do you see me?

Boy on Bike #2: Mister? You got a bone stickin' out of your arm.

Anton Chigurh: Let me just sit here a minute.