Cletus Quotes in Rollerball (1975)

Cletus: Jonathan, there's one thing you ought to know, and nobody's said it, but I'm sure of it. They're afraid of you, Jonathan. All the way to the top, they are.

Jonathan E.: What do you know about the corporate wars?

Cletus: Oh, they were naaaasty... Woooh.

Cletus: I forget what corporation is running what city. Chicago's still a food city. But, what about Indianapolis? Whatever happened to that town?

Mackie: Whatever happened to Mackie?

Cletus: Things were much simpler when I was a kid. We still had three nations. That was before the Corporate Wars and even before Rollerball. Before everything. Do you believe in kicks? I remember somebody telling me about the National Football League and the World Cup.

Jonathan E.: [Mackie gets up to leave] Where are you going?

Mackie: Indianapolis.

Jonathan E.: There's something going on with the game. I don't know what it is. I don't think I'm supposed to know.

Cletus: What's that?

Jonathan E.: They want me to quit.

Cletus: Why - would they want you to do that?

Jonathan E.: I don't know. That's what I'd like you to find out.

Russ Cargill: I was tricked by an idiot!

Cletus: Hey, I know how you feel; I was beat in tic-tac-toe by a chicken.

Mayor Quimby: To make sure this wall is completely idiot-proof... Cletus!

Cletus: Yes'um?

Mayor Quimby: Try to dump something in the lake.

Cletus: Okay.

[tries to go to the lake to dump a possum but keeps hitting the wall]

Cletus: I can't. I - I simply can't.

Cletus: [after showing Cargill a trick with his thumb] You want to know how I do it?

Russ Cargill: Four generations of inbreeding?

Cletus: [Flattered] Oh, you.

Carl: If someone distracts Cargill, the rest of us can climb up that thing.

Lenny: But who would be dumb enough to stay here while we escape with our lives?

Cletus: Ahem... My time to shine!

Claypool: Damnit Cletus! What are you doing out there! making a 10-pound ass baby?

Cletus: I'm sorry sheriff. I was trying to pee.

Claypool: How did that go, genius? You figure it all out?

Cletus: I think that thing we got might be worse than what we thought.

[Cletus hands the sheriff something]

Claypool: What the fuck are you handing me? A dead baby field mouse?

Cletus: It ain't a dead baby field mouse!

Claypool: [both grunt in disgust] You just made me touch your penis!