Jack Potter Quotes in Camouflage (2001)

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Jack Potter Quotes:

  • Jack Potter: Marty knew dick about being a dick.

  • Jack Potter: When in Rome, do like the Romans. But Marty wasn't in Rome... Rome's in Italy.

  • Bearded Guy: [referring to music on radio] I'm a songwriter. I wrote this, and I recorded it with a buddy down in Bakersfield. He used to have a studio, but he's dead now. Yeah... Somebody killed him for being selfish. Look, this song's called "Last Train to Trussburg." Do you think you could help me get it published? I mean... , look, you could sing it. Hell, you could even record it! Hey, I got words! Listen.

    [singing]

    Bearded Guy: Two-lane redwood highway, bumping along... Two-lane redwood highway, it's a song... Two-lane redwood highway, two-lane redwood highway...

    [abruptly stops singing]

    Bearded Guy: Oh, I think I might add a couple yippee-ai-yays to give it a cowboy feel. What do you say?

    Jack Potter: I don't sing other people's songs, you know? I'm a loner. You know what I mean.

    [he turns to walk away]

    Jack Potter: Is there a place around here a guy can take a pee?

    Bearded Guy: [angrily grabbing Jack and putting a knife to his throat] You think you're one bigshot singer, don't you? You think you're better than I am. Well, look out that window. What do you see? That's a two-lane redwood highway. I wrote that, huh? Two-lane redwood highway. You're selfish. That's what you are.

  • Jack Potter: We're headed out to a town full of devil-worshipers on a tip from a dame who sees two-headed mules.

    Marty Mackenzie: Jack, in the detective business you cannot leave any stone unturned.

  • Jack Potter: Who was it?

    Skinny Woman: We're talking about... Washington.

    Marty Mackenzie: My God, what, the governments involved?

    Skinny Woman: No, George Washintgon. That's right! The kid who couldn't tell a lie. Shocked? So was I. He's livin' right up in that old mine up on the hill. Him and Elvis and M.L. King and JFK and John Lennon and Harry Truman. They got a cult going on up there. The Blue Oyster Cult.

  • Jack Potter: [narrating] A couple of peckers with a box of dildo's. Marty's hunch had crapped out worse than a tourist in Tijuana. But, there was one more sex-toy waiting for Marty: A cold cock.

    [Marty is punched in the jaw]

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