Gas Station Proprietor 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]

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?