Ellis Quotes in Sex and Breakfast (2007)

Ellis: I'm not dead, you know.

Renee: Okay. Me, either.

Ellis: Listen, I'll let you know if I change my mind and want some dick, okay?

Harry Bailey: [speaking of black rights] Stop trying to join up, will you. You've gotta be better than we are.

Ellis: We already are in certain areas.

Harry Bailey: Yeah, I know. How come that's the only racial stereotype you never bother to deny?

Ellis: Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.

Ed Tom Bell: That man that shot you died in prison.

Ellis: Angola. Yeah...

Ed Tom Bell: What you'd done he had been released?

Ellis: Oh, I dunno. Nothing. Wouldn't be no point in it.

Ed Tom Bell: I'm kindly surprised to hear you say that.

Ellis: Well all the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it. Your granddad never asked me to sign on as a deputy.

Ed Tom Bell: How many of those things you got now?

Ellis: Cats? Several. Well, depends what you mean by got. Some are half-wild, and some are just outlaws.

Ellis: He's not dangerous.

Neckbone: [sighs] Sounds like a shitload of state troopers thinks differently.

Neckbone: I knew it. I told you that dirty son of a bitch was trouble. Did you tell them where he is?

Ellis: No, that's why I called you. He needs to know people are looking for him.

Neckbone: You think he doesn't know that already? Jesus, Ellis! Why do you even think he's on that island?

Neckbone: Ellis, I'm serious! We don't know who this guy is.

Ellis: He loves her, Neck. He told me.

Neckbone: I don't give a shit who he loves!

Mud: What'd you say, boy? It's a hell of a thing, ain't it?

Ellis: What's that?

Mud: Boat up on a tree. Hell of a thing.

Senior: You know I love you?

Ellis: Yessir. I know.

Senior: I work you hard 'cause life is work. You know that?

Ellis: Yessir.

Senior: Your Mamma's been talkin' 'bout movin' in town.

Ellis: What's that mean?

Senior: She seems set on it. Wants to separate. She may ask me for a divorce.

Ellis: [pause] What's that mean for me?

Senior: It means enjoy the river son. Enjoy it while you live on it, 'cause this way a life isn't long for this world. Game and Fish's 'bout made certain of that.

Ellis: But you and me can still live out here. Game and Fish can't take your boat. Not while you're still in it.

Senior: The houseboat's in your mother's name. Her daddy give it to her not me. If she wants to leave it, Game and Fish has ever' right to take this boat apart board by board.

Ellis: But that ain't right. You work outta here. We got the ice machine, the traps. What are we supposed to do?

Senior: Like I said, this is your mother's business.

Ellis: I ain't no townie. I ain't livin' like that.

Senior: [pause] I've let you down. A man should be in charge of his own affairs, but I haven't worked it like that.

Ellis: But ya'll are married. Ya'll are s'posed to love each other.

Senior: I don't know about that anymore.