Brutus "Brutal" Howell Quotes in The Green Mile (1999)

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [a rehearsal execution] Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before the sentence is carried out?

Toot-Toot: [gleefully] Yeah! I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have Mae West sit on my face, because I am one horny motherfucker!

Percy Wetmore: [after finding Mr. Jingles alive after he steps on him] You switched 'em. You switched 'em somehow, you bastards.

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Yeah I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this.

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Well, there must be something we can do for you, John. There must be something we that you want.

John Coffey: [pauses] I ain't never seen me a flicker show.

Paul Edgecomb: John, do you know where we're taking you?

John Coffey: Help a lady?

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: That's right. But how do you know?

John Coffey: Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much'o anything.

Percy Wetmore: [while tapping Arlen's burned face after being electrocuted] Adios, Chief! Drop us a card from Hell, let us know if it's hot enough...

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [Brutus grabs Percy's arm and pushes him away from Arlen's body] He's paid what he's owed; he's square with the house again, so keep your goddamn hands off him!

John Coffey: There's lotsa people here that hate me, lots. I can feel it. It's like bees stingin' me.

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Well feel how we feel then. We don't hate you. Can you feel that?

Dean Stanton: What did you do?

John Coffey: I helped Del's mouse become a circus mouse. Gonna live in a mouse city. Down in...

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Florida?

John Coffey: [John nods] Boss Percy bad. He mean. He stepped on Del's mouse. I took it back though.

Paul Edgecomb: [whispers] Goddamn, the sponge is dry!

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Well, don't you stop it! Don't you do it. It's too late for that.

Paul Edgecomb: [to Dean Stanton who is standing in the doorway with a broom] You let him get past you.

Dean Stanton: No I did not.

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Three grown men... outsmarted by a mouse.

William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [Brutus Howell hands out cold sodas to the other guards] Hey, hey, I'm gonna get some too, ain't I?

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: My ass you get some too.

Paul Edgecomb: What makes you think you deserve any?

William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [mutters] 'Cause I got a big pecker...

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: You all right in there?

Paul Edgecomb: Yeah, for a man pissing razor blades.

Paul Edgecomb: I wanna hear about this new inmate, aside from how big he is!

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Monstrous big!

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [Brutal gets his first look at John Coffey, before Paul] He's enormous!

Paul Edgecomb: [smirks] Can't be bigger than you!

[both snicker]

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: He's chokin'. Whatever he sucked out of her, he's choking on!

Paul Edgecomb: John, do you know where we're taking you?

John Coffey: Help a lady?

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: That's right. But how do you know?

John Coffey: Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much o' anything.

Paul Edgecomb: [while strapping the straight jacket] C'mon Wild Bill, you're gonna walk your walk.

Wild Bill Wharton: Don't you call me that! Wild Bill Hickok was no range-rider! He was just another bushwackin' John Law! Dumb sonofabitch sat with his back to the door, kilt by a drunk!

Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Oh my suds and body, a history lesson! Boy, you just never know just what your gonna get when you come to work everyday on the Green Mile.