Lucas Quotes in The Hunter's Prayer (2017)

Ella: [in the trunk, voice trembling] Hello? Are you there? Why aren't we moving? What's happening?

Lucas: [straining as he's getting ready to shoot heroine in the driver's seat] Just... Talk to me.

Ella: I don't know what to say.

Lucas: Tell me about your father.

Ella: My dad...

[scoffs]

Ella: I hate my dad. All reason I'm in this stupid trunk is 'cause of him! It's all his fault... Such an asshole. Then my mom dies and he marries a total bitch. God I hate them... They don't even want me around.

Lucas: Sometimes dads make mistakes.

[pulls out of the parking spot and starts driving]

Lucas: Thank you stranger from the corn field.

Lucas: They said they were gonna bring a check, I didn't know they were gonna send a death squad!

Lucas: [last words] My foot's stuck. Cade, wait! Wait!

Pete: Great, we missed another one.

[into the radio mic]

Pete: Hey you guys know the point of this documentary is to actually film a tornado, right?

Daryl: [answering on the radio] 10-4.

Jacob: We need a tornado.

Pete: We need a tornado. When's the last time we saw one?

Lucas: That EF-4 that we shot for the Weather Channel last year.

Pete: Oh, so that makes us zero-for-365. What does that make our average? Jacob, you play baseball, right?

Jacob: Hockey, actually.

Lucas: Really? I play lacrosse, man.

Jacob: Really? No way.

Pete: [laughing sarcastically] This is fun, just like a family road trip.

Jacob: Did I miss something?

Pete: No Jacob, you miss... everything. Although we do have four hundred hours of clouds and sunsets and us going to every drive-in from Idaho to Texas, which makes this the most expensive home movie ever.

Jacob: Just to be clear, we still get paid whether we see a tornado or not, right?... Right?

Lucas: They said that it was at the building which doesn't necessarily mean that its

[together with Caleb]

Lucas: in the building. "A snake without with out skin shows its veins"... of course.

[He looks up]

Lucas: A weather vane.

Lucas: This isn't right.

Judge Litten Mandrake: Well, it may not be right, but it worked. This is your preacceptance to the law school of your choice.

Lucas: I haven't even applied yet.

Judge Litten Mandrake: Imagine that. It's all paid for. I would do anything to protect you. Won't you do the same for me?

[When Ned is taken hostage at a bank]

Lucas: Maybe I better stay with you guys a little longer.

Lucas: [to Ned] You're an asshole.

[under heavy gun fire]

Lucas: Cover me!

[Edy Stark jumps on top of him]

Lucas: Not like that!

Terry McCain: [at the hospital, interrogating a suspect] Come on Tony, quit dicking me around, I know you work for DiMarco. I know everything abut that operation. I need to hear you say it. Okay. Let's see what flying through a window does to the human body.

[reads the chart]

Terry McCain: Broken ribs, broken nose, multiple contusions, sprained ankle. Oh, a sprained ankle.

Tony: [McCain slams the chart on the ankle] Fuck you, I know my rights!

Terry McCain: [leans on his chest] Let me tell you something. I've wasted the last three years of my life on DiMarco. I'm getting tired of watching him walk in and out of courtrooms in his two thousand dollar suits and silk ties! You start answering my questions or I'm gonna shove these broken ribs right through your fucking lungs!

Lucas: Ahem.

Terry McCain: What?

Lucas: I-I couldn't hear that last part.

Terry McCain: You weren't supposed to.

Murdoch: Well just settle down and relax, while I finish telling you the Armstrong story.

Lucas: OK

Murdoch: Well His first words were 'Congratulations Mr. Gorsky.'

Lucas: Right

Murdoch: Well a lot of theories popped up about what Armstrong meant, like maybe he saw something up here that proved the Russians made it first or that he was some kind of double agent sending a message to Moscow. Finally he got sick of hearing about it so he decides to set the record straight. Turns out when he was a kid, Armstrong lived next door to an older couple named Gorsky. So one day he went over to their yard to get a stray baseball, and he heard a noise. Then he looked in the window, and there were the Garcons going at it on the table. And suddenly Mr. Gorsky stopped and said to his wife, after 30 years of good loving he wanted to try something different. Well Mrs. Gorsky was shocked. How dare him ask her for such a thing. Dream on, she said to him, the day I put that thing in my mouth is the day that little Armstong boy next door walks on the moon.

Lucas: I reckon that's what we do on this earth - we search for truth, and we find it in what we do.

Dane: Who the hell is that? She one of your little friends?

Lucas: I don't have any friends.

[last lines]

Susan: When I was a little girl I was pretty scared of a monster that I thought was under my bed.

Lucas: Uh oh...

Lucas: I really don't like clowns.

Lucas: I love the Power Glove. It's so bad.

Lucas: Hey, it's the wizard! I hope you don't get nervous like last time. We wouldn't want you to..."wiz" on someone!

Lucas: Pick any game you want. I'm good at all of 'em. I've got 97 of 'em.

Haley: You know all 97 of them?

Carmen García: I have a little place on the edge of town that's a very nice place for fortunetelling.

Lucas: And I know a place in the middle of town that's a better place for fortunetelling.

Carmen García: [He helps her down and holds her close to him] And I say we go to my place.

Lucas: And I say we'll go to mine.

Mark: Hey, Lucas. I've decided I'm going to start a band.

Lucas: The first thing you need is a name. Then you'll know what kind of band you've got.

Mark: Right, right. I was thinking about, um, Marc. How does that sound?

Lucas: Is that with a C or with a K?

Mark: Well my name is with a

[checks his nametag]

Mark: K, so I was thinking my band's name could be with a C. That way it's kind of that psychedelic, you know, trip thing.

Lucas: Always play with their minds.

A.J.: What's with you? Yesterday you were normal and today you're like the Chinese guy from the Karate Kid. What's with you today?

Lucas: What's with today today?

Lucas: In the immortal words of The Doors, 'The time to hesitate is through.'

Lucas: $9104. I counted it... twice.

Lady at Craps Table: I like your style.

Lucas: [proud, humble] Well Joe told me to count it twice...

A.J.: Lucas, hey Lucas. Hey Lucas. What the hell are you doin' here, man?

Lucas: Something happened to me last night. In Atlantic City.

A.J.: Oh, you went to Atlantic City?

Mark: Wow! Did you win anything?

Lucas: No. I did not win. So if you guys ever wonder if it was nice to know you, I tell you now that it was.

Lucas: Mitchell's the man Joe.

Joe: And the man calls all the shots.

Lucas: Damn the man.

Joe: Let me explain it to you. Mitchell's the man. I'm the idiot. You're the screw-up. And we're all losers. Welcome to music town.

Lucas: Joe, is it O.K. if I leave the couch? 'Cause I'm gonna leave the couch now, okay? My ass is falling asleep, so I gotta go. I'm leaving.

Joe: I want you to take these

[CD's]

Joe: , hold 'em against your chest, stand against the wall, and they're gonna take a photograph of you.

Warren: Why don't you go shove 'em up your ass?

Lucas: ...Because it would hurt a lot, Warren.

Lucas: Joe, I think it's gonna be okay.

Joe: What makes you think that?

Lucas: Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.

A.J.: Lucas, do you think it's possible for a person to be in love with someone else and not even know it?

Lucas: In this life there are nothing but possibilities.

A.J.: Well, that's good, because I have to tell Corey I love her by 1:37.

Lucas: That's an excellent time.

Joe: [after Lucas enters] Lucas!

Lucas: Joe!

Joe: Where's the money?

Lucas: Joe, the money is gone.

Joe: Yeah, I know it's gone... but where's it gone to?

Lucas: Atlantic City.

Joe: Atlantic City?... Is it coming back from Atlantic City?

Lucas: [nervous laugh] Oh, I don't think so, Joe.

Joe: What's it doing in Atlantic City, Lucas?

Lucas: ...Recirculating.

Joe: Recirculating?

Lucas: Yeah.

[Joe knocks the donation cup that Lucas was carrying out of his hands and grabs his arm]

Joe: Lucas, listen to me. I told Mitchell Beck that you forgot to deposit the money. I told Mitchell that the money was still here.

Lucas: Joe, that's not true. It's in Atlantic City... I swear.

Joe: Shut up, sit down, and don't you move.

Lucas: [sitting down] It could be in other cities by now...

Joe: Oh, shut up! Under no circumstances do I want you to leave that couch... unless it's to get me $9000, and then you bring it here to me, okay?

Lucas: Okay. You know, I think things are gonna be all right now, Joe.

Joe: Oh? And what makes you think that.

Lucas: Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.

[nodding]

Lucas: Mmhmm!

Joe: ...What a moron.

Lucas: Warren, look what you took.

[going through the CD's that Warren stole from the store]

Lucas: Rap... metal... rap... metal... And Whitney Houston.

Warren: It's for my girlfriend, okay?

Lucas: Suuure it is. You know, someone like you needs to diminish their criminal impulses, not magnify them. Maybe some jazz or some classical.

Warren: Maybe you bite me.

Lucas: I used to pee in my bed. I did. I, I wet my bed until I was ten. My mother turned me over to the county when I was ten to- not for being a bed wetter- but for being a bad seed. Anyways, 3 years went by, then Joe came. And he took me out, and I became the well adjusted person I am today.

Lucas: The long arm of the law has embraced our dear friend Warren.

Lucas: Mark, who's your favorite singer?

Mark: Axl.

Lucas: Well if Axl Rose was driving down the highway, and saw Rex Manning stranded on the side of the road, do you think Axl Rose would stop and help him?

Mark: [thinks] ... Does Axl have a jack?

Warren: No way man!... Axl would pound on the gas, turn the wheel, take aim, and take that sucker out!

[after Joe beats Lucas up in his office]

Joe: Here.

[hands Lucas a washcloth]

Joe: You deserved that, you know that.

Lucas: Yeah, I know it.

Debra: Hey Lucas, is it true you committed the perfect crime?

Lucas: Not entirely perfect.

Eddie: This music is the glue of the world Mark. It's what holds it all together. Without this, life would be meaningless.

Mark: Hey, did you hear about Lucas?

Eddie: Hey Lucas man, I hear you went to Vegas and you married a mobster's wife and now you've got a hit on you and stuff. Is that true?

Lucas: Not entirely true.

Eddie: Well outlaw man, we solute you.

Lucas: Thank you Eddie.

Eddie: No problem.

[Lucas has just gambled away all Joe's money]

Lucas: I wonder if I'll be held responsible for this.

Jane: Actually, his new album tested well among teenage males.

Lucas: Jane, did you compare the percentage of teenage male Rex Manning fans to the incidence of homosexuality amongst teenage males?

Lucas: The fat man walks alone.

Lucas: I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do.

High Roller: That's an 18,000 dollar bet, you sure you know what you're doin kid?

Lucas: I know this, that if I win this roll I will save the place that I work from being sold, and the jobs of my friends that work there. Thus striking a blow at all that is evil and making this world a better place to be in.

Lady at Craps Table: Huh?

Lucas: ...And I'll buy you guys a drink.

Gina: Lucas, what are you doing in here?

Lucas: My life has reached its pinnacle. Joe is letting me close the store tonight.

Lucas: Joe, I can categorically say that you are not a bigger banana-head.

Lady at Craps Table: Feeling lucky?

Lucas: I am guided by a force much greater than luck.

[about the CDs that Warren tried to shoplift]

Lucas: Rap, metal, rap, metal, Whitney Houston.

Lucas: Do you know how many people there are out there?

A.J.: Well, about 6 billion.

Lucas: Really... 6 billion... that's a lot of people...

[Lucas shows up to Maggie's house ready to go to the school dance with Cappie and Alise as a double date]

Lucas: So, you ready to go?

Maggie: I don't think we can go, Lucas.

Lucas: Why not?

Maggie: Cappie and Alise broke up today.

Lucas: But aren't they here?

Maggie: Cappie's here, and he's very depressed. Sit down.

[Lucas sits with Maggie outside her front door]

Maggie: She was jealous, or she doesn't like me or something. She said she'd break up with him if he went through with it. She didn't want to go with us, Luke. So, I think we have to call it off.

Lucas: I have my bike. We can still go.

Maggie: He kind of needs someone with him tonight. I don't want to leave him by himself. He had tears in his eyes when he came over tonight. Can you imagine tat big, strong guy crying?

[Cappie walks out of the house and sits between Maggie and Lucas]

Cappie: Hi, Luke. I am sorry, Bud. Am I a drag, or what?

Lucas: Listen. I think you should come to the dance with us. I think it'd cheer you up.

Cappie: Naw. I'd feel like a third wheel. We were thinking of going out for a pizza. Why don't you come with us?

Maggie: Yeah, why don't you?

Lucas: You're going out for pizza.

Cappie: Well, it's just a suggestion.

Lucas: If you're so depressed how come you're eating pizza?

Cappie: Maybe I should just go home.

Lucas: No. Go eat pizza. Don't let me spoil your depression.

[Lucas runs to get his bike as Maggie runs behind him]

Maggie: Are you okay? Where are you going?

Lucas: To the dance.

Maggie: By yourself?

Lucas: Hey, I'm a party animal.

[Lucas gets on his bike and rides away]

[Lucas is called out of football practice by Coach Boyd]

Coach: What the hell are you?

Lucas: Excuse me?

Coach: Who suited you up?

Lucas: Well, I'd like to speak to you about that. This equipment just doesn't fit.

Coach: No, that's not the problem. It's you that don't fit. Now go turn it in.

Lucas: Excuse me. I can run really fast when I concentrate.

Coach: I said turn it in. Now, get off the field.

[yells to the other players]

Coach: All right, everybody inside for chalk talk! Shower up, first. Let's go, go, go, go, go, go!

Lucas: You're making a big mistake. I'll be good at this. I can lower my center of gravity. See? Look.

[Lucas does a few little spins left and right]

Lucas: See? And my size, I gotta run fast. If they catch me, I'm dead.

Coach: Just, listen, little buddy. We got our first game this Saturday against Rockford and I don't have time to dick around with you.

Lucas: Well, I'm afraid... you'll have to, sir... dick around with me. The Supreme Court, by virtue of the sexual discrimination act says, that if anyone tries out for a team sport has to be given the same chance as everyone else. Now, if you wish to cut me based on my performance, that's your right, but I'll take you to court if you try it before.

Coach: What's this shit?

Lucas: I looked it up. My family's in law.

[Lucas walks off the field as Coach Boyd looks at him with his mouth open]

[Lucas goes to his bike]

Maggie: Where are you going?

Lucas: To the dance.

Maggie: By yourself?

Lucas: Hey, I'm a party animal.

[Lucas hides away from Maggie under a bridge]

Maggie: Come on out, Lucas. I know you're in there. I can see your feet.

[joins Lucas under the bridge]

Maggie: Have you been crying?

Lucas: Yeah. So what? I mean, wimps do that. Didn't you know? Just like big, strong guys.

Maggie: What do you want me to do, Lucas?

Lucas: I don't care. Just keep doing what you're doing. Go to bed with him.

Maggie: That's not fair.

Lucas: Yeah, a lot of things aren't fair.

Maggie: Lucas, you and I were just friends.

Lucas: Why?

Maggie: What do you mean, why?

Lucas: I mean, why just friends?

Maggie: Because that's all we were.

Lucas: Yeah, but why?

Maggie: Well, you're 14.

Lucas: Romeo was 14.

Maggie: I don't know, Lucas. There are certain people you like in a certain way, and others you like as a friend. I don't know why. You know about science, do you know why?

Lucas: Yeah. Actually, I do. It's called the process of natural selection. You ever heard of Darwin? The males who demonstrate physical prowess are the most attractive to the females. And by breeding with the strongest males, the females ensure survival of the species.

Maggie: You know how wonderful you are?

Lucas: Yeah, but it doesn't turn you on, does it?

Maggie: I want you to be my friend.

[Lucas tries to kiss Maggie]

Maggie: What are we going to do with you?

Lucas: Go away.

[Lucas begins to yell]

Lucas: Go! Leave! Leave! Go! Go away!

[Maggie leaves Lucas alone]

Lucas: You can't ever make me quit, EVER!

[Lucas runs in to play the first big game for the football team]

Coach: What the hell are you doing?

Lucas: I'm ready to go in. I can run fast. I can win this game.

Coach: Just get out of here, will you?

Lucas: Look, just give me one chance. One play.

Coach: Get out of here, I said. Get off of the field.

Lucas: Look, I'll make you a deal. You have nothing to lose. They're whipping your ass, anyway.

Coach: Listen to me...

Lucas: Put me in, I'll never come back, I swear. Just let me play today. You have nothing to lose, just let me in.

Coach: Hear me good, you pissant, because I'm only going to tell you one more time.

Lucas: Don't you call me that. Don't you call me a pissant, you dumb, fucking jock.

Coach: What'd you say?

Lucas: You heard me, pencil-brain. I mean, who are we kidding here, who is the pissant? The second-rate coach of a third rate team or me?

Coach: What's your name?

Lucas: Lucas.

Coach: I mean your last name!

Lucas: Bly.

Coach: You're right, Bly. I've got nothing to lose by sending you in. Karger out! Bly in!

Lucas: What position?

Coach: Prone.

[Lucas runs into the football field]

[Lucas disagrees with Maggie on becoming superficial]

Maggie: I think I'm going to do this today.

Lucas: Cheerleading?

Maggie: Well check it out.

Lucas: What for?

Maggie: I might want to do it.

Lucas: What, be a cheerleader?

Maggie: I don't know. Is that all right, Lucas?

[Lucas shrugs his shoulders]

Maggie: Well, the way you were looking at me.

Lucas: Whatever. We can collect tadpoles tomorrow.

Maggie: Well, If I like it, I will be doing it tomorrow, too. They practice everyday.

[Lucas hangs his head]

Maggie: It sounds like fun, Lucas. well, didn't you hear what they said? Away games and buses and stuff.

Lucas: I guess everybody has their own idea of fun. Some people go to football games. Other people do less superficial things.

Maggie: Look, Lucas. Just because you don't approve of something doesn't mean other people don't have a right to enjoy it. Well, you're in the band aren't you?

Lucas: Yeah.

Maggie: So?

Lucas: So?

Maggie: So the band goes to football games.

Lucas: We're totally different.

Maggie: Why?

Lucas: Because the band does not have fun there.

Maggie: Then why do you do it?

Lucas: I don't know.

Maggie: Well, figure it out, and in the meantime don't call people superficial because they just want to have fun. Look, I'm new here. I don't know anybody. Why can't you be helpful and understanding about that?

[Maggie runs off]

Lucas: There is a dance on Friday and if you and Alise could take Maggie and me, it'd be great. See, she has to meet people. She has a strong need for acceptance.

[Lucas walks into the school shower with the other football jocks]

Bruno: Hey, Leukoplakia. They got a jockstrap that can fit you? Hey, maybe one of you guys should stop by sewing class and pick up a thimble, Lucas here needs a jockstrap. Or maybe a thimble would be too big. Hey, anybody got a contact lens? A contact lens with a Band-Aid.

Lucas: Are you referring to the size of my penis?

Bruno: Yeah I am.

Lucas: With a flaccid penis, it's the number of folds that count. And anyway, I don't get semi-erect around other males like some of you fellas do.

Bruno: What'd you say?

Lucas: It's a study done by the University of Illinois. You can tell the fags in a warm shower by who's got the longest dong. Look, yours seems to be growing even now.

Bruno: The hell it is.

Lucas: [Lucas points] It is, look.

Spike: Hey, look. He's getting a hard-on. Don't nobody bend over to pick up the soap.

Bruno: You little shit.

Lucas: Oh. They say physical violence is an expression of sexual feeling.

[Bruno and Spike charge Lucas and carry him with the rest of the football players]

[Lucas tells Maggie how he feels about sports]

Lucas: You know, either you're an athlete, or you're not an athlete. Actually I am, I'm an athlete. I just don't like to get caught up in that stuff, I think it's superficial. You know, football heroes, cheerleaders, and parties. I'd be willing to play football if that other junk didn't go along with it.

Bruno: Luke, Luke! Get that ball away and puke! Ben and Luke! I'm going to puke!

Lucas: Let's go...

Ben: Don't let him scare you away!

Lucas: Scare me away?

Ben: Yeah, just tell him to eat shit.

[Lucas and Maggie sit in the movie theater and begin to watch Cappie and Alise kissing in the row behind them]

Maggie: Why do they call you Leukoplakia? Does it mean something?

Lucas: Leukoplakia is cancer of the mouth.

Lucas: [Maggie and Lucas then look in the row behind them] I think they've done it. It's the same with pigeons. You can tell by the way they kiss.

[Maggie continues to stare when Cappie see's her watching]

[Lucas see's Maggie for the first time and begins to watch her play tennis as one of the tennis balls rolls to him]

Maggie: Could you grab that for me?

[Lucas rolls the tennis ball back]

Maggie: Thank you. Do you play tennis?

Lucas: No. Uh-Uh.

Maggie: What's that thing?

Lucas: It's a net, for insects.

Maggie: You collect them?

Lucas: No, to collect them, you have to kill them. I just look at 'em.

Maggie: Oh, that's nice.

[Lucas smiles and nods]

Maggie: Well, thanks.

[Maggie goes back to playing tennis as Lucas hits the play button on his tape player, playing the song Waltz of the Flowers, continuing to watch her]

Lucas: [Maggie see's Lucas still watching as he turns off the tape player] You're very good.

Maggie: Not so much when people are watching me.

Lucas: Are you on the team?

Maggie: No, I just moved here. Is there a team?

Lucas: Yeah, at school.

Maggie: Which school, Park High?

Lucas: Yeah.

Maggie: You go there?

[Lucas nods yes]

Maggie: You look... Younger.

Lucas: Yeah I'm accelerated.

Maggie: Oh, you must be real smart then.

[Locus nods yes again]

Maggie: Well, I'll see you there when it starts.

Lucas: What's your name?

Maggie: Maggie.

Lucas: Hi, I'm Lucas.

[Lucas tells Maggie what he thinks about her name after she gives him a ride home]

Lucas: It's perfect your name's Maggie.

Maggie: Why?

Lucas: Because a Magpie's black and white.

Maggie: Oh.

Lucas: [smiles] Perfect.

Maggie: [laughs] Bye-Bye.

Lucas: Bye.

[Maggie honks her car horn]

[Lucas talks to Maggie inside her car]

Maggie: Well, what's your phone number?

Lucas: Oh, um, it's unlisted. And my parents don't like for me to give it out to people.

Maggie: Oh. Well, then maybe I'll stop by sometime.

Lucas: Um, they don't like people to stop by either. You know, I can visit people, but they just don't like people making a mess of the house.

Maggie: Oh.

Lucas: But hey, I can meet you there.

Maggie: Where?

Lucas: Um, the tennis courts, the ones by the school.

Maggie: When?

Lucas: 3:00.

Maggie: Today!

Lucas: Every day!

Maggie: Ok.

[Maggie laughs as Lucas runs off]

[Lucas talks to Maggie with their backs to each other, while sitting under the stage of a classical music band playing]

Lucas: Maggie.

Maggie: Yeah?

Lucas: Is your name Margaret?

Maggie: Yes.

Lucas: Margaret.

Maggie: Yeah?

Lucas: I'm just saying it.

Maggie: Oh.

Lucas: Did you think we'd be such good friends when we first met?

Maggie: I don't know.

Lucas: What did you think of me?

Maggie: I thought you were interesting.

Lucas: I thought you were beautiful.

Lucas: Do you still?

Maggie: What?

Lucas: Think I'm interesting?

Maggie: Yes.

Lucas: Me, too.

Maggie: Lucas, I think I like classical music.

Maggie: Lucas?

Lucas: Yeah.

Maggie: Is there something wrong?

Maggie: I just wish school would never start.

[Lucas and Maggie stare at each other]

[Lucas sits outside of the school dance when Rena joins him at his side]

Rena: Lucas, is that you? What are you doing?

Lucas: Nothing much.

Rena: You look nice.

Lucas: Thank you.

[Rena sits next to Lucas]

Rena: Drinking beer?

Lucas: Dragonfly Nymph. You ever see one?

[Lucas holds up a beer bottle with a bug inside]

Rena: Oh, it's ugly. Glad it's not bigger than me.

Lucas: It turns into something very beautiful, Rena.

Rena: Is that possible?

Lucas: Yeah, can you imagine that? Turning from something ugly into something beautiful.

Rena: No. Frankly, I can't.

[pause]

Rena: You going to bring it to Carlson?

[Lucas then throws the bottle as it splashes in the water]

Rena: I thought you had a date.

Lucas: Nah.

Rena: Well, are you going in?

[Lucas nods no]

Rena: Why not?

Lucas: Thinking.

Rena: About what?

Lucas: Romeo and Juliet.

Rena: Really? How come?

Lucas: How old were they? Do you know?

Rena: She was 13, and I guess he was about the same. Why?

Lucas: Two different worlds, huh?

Rena: Romeo and Juliet? Yeah.

Lucas: That can be a problem.

[Maggie walks into the hospital room Lucas is in]

Maggie: [Maggie begins to cry] You could have gotten killed.

Lucas: Did we win?

Maggie: No way.

Lucas: Boy. They sure were big.

Maggie: [Maggie laughs] I don't want you ever playing football again.

Lucas: Okay.

Maggie: You.

Lucas: Magpie.

Maggie: Locusts. They're all gone, you know. The Locusts. I was just outside. They aren't making any noise anymore.

Lucas: Not for 17 years.

[Maggie holds Lucas's hand]

Lucas: I'm sorry for doing this.

Maggie: I guess you had to.

Lucas: Yeah.

Maggie: You know, survival of the species and all.

[both smile]

Maggie: What are you thinking?

Lucas: I'm just wondering where we'll be when they come back.

Maggie: Who?

Lucas: The Locusts.

Maggie: Gosh, I don't know.

Lucas: You'll be 33.

Maggie: Oh, wow.

Lucas: I'll be 31 1/2. I wonder if we'll still know each other.

Maggie: I don't know.

Lucas: I hope so.

Maggie: Oh, me too.

[Lucas and Maggie smile together]

[Lucas and Ben stand up to Bruno in the theater lobby]

Cappie: Hey, what's going on?

Bruno: Hey, this kid is mouthing off to me.

Cappie: Come on, let's go.

Bruno: Hey, wait a second.

Cappie: Hey, what's the point?

Bruno: Hey, I'm kidding around, and this fat little marshmallow opens his mouth to me.

Cappie: Don't worry about it. Let's go see a movie.

Bruno: You better watch your mouth fat boy.

[grabs Lucas by the neck]

Bruno: Learn to be like Lucas here, he's smart, not like you.

Ben: He's scared, not like me.

Bruno: Oh, yeah?

Ben: Yeah.

Bruno: You know, you're asking for it.

Lucas: Well, so are you!

Bruno: What'd you say?

Lucas: You heard me.

Bruno: You know, maybe you boys would like to step outside.

Angie: Bruno, let's go.

Bruno: No, I think I have to settle this.

Angie: Well, I came to see a movie.

Cappie: So did I.

Lucas: [Lucas gets in Bruno's face] Yeah, but not King Kong.

Cappie: Come on, settle down.

Angie: No fights, I mean it.

Cappie: I'd listen to the lady.

Jaime: This thing you call politics? Politics is bullshit.

Lucas: I was wondering what it was.

Lucas: You're the Democratic nominee!

Bill McKay: You make it sound like a death sentence.

Lucas: Follow through, aim for the backboard, relax.

Lucas: Never remove an empty glass. It is the customer's history, a track record of his state of mind, an important documentation which should not be fixed nor falsified.

Psychiatrist: Why did you try suicide?

Lucas: Well, you know, when it comes to survival of the fittest, I just have to throw in the towel, I guess.

Psychiatrist: But you're not an animal, Lucas, you're a human being. You live in highly developed society that has all kinds of buffers and security nets that are designed to break your fall.

Lucas: No, I don't follow the rules of civilization anymore. I'm outside. I'm an animal.

Lucas: A bar is no place for a woman. You were right on that one.

Jacques: April was more of a man than most of the sissies that hang around here.

Lucas: When I was a kid I lost both my parents. Freak thing, ten years old- BANG. - mortality. So I grew up livin' real hard; racing cars, smoking, drinking, sleeping with any girl I could find... Real stupid, dangerous lifestyle... then I turned eleven

[laughs]

Lucas: ... All I know is this; you don't confront your demons and defeat them. You confront them, then you confront them, then you confront them some more, every single day.

Lucas: I came out here to feed the ducks and I see you're feeding the ducks. Maybe we could feed the ducks together?

Vince Sherman: [pulls his gun from a cubby under his wheel chair and cocks it back] I'll give him a taste of the real thing.

Rafe: Did he just pull that gun out of his arse?

Lucas: [Everyone looks at Vince] We weren't suppose to bring weapons.

Vince Sherman: My gun goes where I go. If you ever get shot sometime maybe you'll understand.

Lucas: Well, since the end may be near here; have you always sorta kinda had a thing for me?

[Sarah pulls a huge splinter out of the wound on his arm and he grits his teeth]

Lucas: Is that a no?

Bobby: Two hundred and ninety nine million, seven hundred and ninety two thousand, four hundred and fifty eight meters per second. This is the original measurement for light.

Lucas: And you know that?

Bobby: Its the basic principal of physics

Lucas: Along with "shit happens"?

Lucas: Your other weakness is ME.

Lucas: [sees maggot and worm infested food on table] Hey, dinner at Harris' house. Pass the nuts.

[Sara is tending to a wound]

Lucas: Oh, for the love of God, just take the arm.

Lucas: [exposed] This is awkward.

Lucas: [as Brain #2] If a man speaks in the middle of the forest with no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Brain #1: Yes!

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Lucas: What are you saying? Have you got something to tell me?

Agnes: Stop it, Lucas.

Lucas: You want to tell me something?

Theo: Relax, Lucas.

Lucas: The whole town is listening. Tell me! What do you want to say?

Agnes: Stop it, you fucking psychopath!

Lucas: I want a word with Theo. Look into my eyes. Look me in the eyes. What do you see? Do you see anything? Nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. You leave me alone now. You leave me alone now, Theo. Then I'll go. Thank you.

Alton Meyer: I saw the sunrise this morning. I think I know what I am now.

Alton Meyer: There's... There's a world, built on top of ours. People live there.

Alton Meyer: I think they're like me.

Roy: We saw it.

Sarah Tomlin: They're like you?

Alton Meyer: Yes, I think so.

Sarah Tomlin: I understand.

Alton Meyer: Lucas?

Lucas: I believe you.

Alton Meyer: Good.

Lucas: Could we go back to Texas now?

Sarah Tomlin: Roy will get him here.

Lucas: If he's not dead.

Lucas: Sorry.

Sarah Tomlin: Roy won't let that happen.

Lucas: Yeah, I hope not.

Sarah Tomlin: He believes in something. You don't.

Lucas: It doesn't matter. Good people die every day believing in things.

Sarah Tomlin: Roy spent two years watching another man raise our son.

Sarah Tomlin: He did what I couldn't.

Sarah Tomlin: He'll do anything to get him here.

Lucas: I'm in the middle of nowhere!

Lucas: I don't deserve this.

Lucas: I can tell you something about this place. The boys around here call it "The Black Lagoon" - a paradise. Only they say nobody has ever come back to prove it.

Lucas: What kind of fishing is that? Who eats rocks?

Carl Maia: I eat rocks, in a manner of speaking. I crush and look inside them and they tell me things.

Lucas: What do they tell you?

Carl Maia: How old they are.

Lucas: It is impossible. But I, Lucas, will do it.

Lucas: There are many strange legends in the Amazon. Even I, Lucas, have heard the legend of a man-fish.

Lucas: I hope you ain't going to blow up my boat, Mr. Johnson. Like my wife, she's not much but she's all I have.

Lucas: I just want this whole thing to be over.

Martha: It's not about you, Lucas.

Martha: You were attacked.

Lucas: By who?

Martha: Me.

Lucas: You think I'm scowling. Just looking at you.

Lucas: The hall of fame's full of posh kids.

Lucas: Warn me when you take off like that.

Manu Pedraza: I just went for croissants

Lucas: Two hours ago?

Lucas: What's the difference between kissing a boy or a girl? Boys have beards. Otherwise it'd be the same thing.

Luther Harris: [referring to Maddox] Who's he, some bounty hunter or something?

Lucas: Don't make an enemy of him, storekeeper. Step wide of him.

Lucas: I know what you're doin' is wrong, Maddox. You were wrong in San Acoma. You're wrong here.

Bannock Marshal Jared Maddox: Not from where I stand.

Lucas: You can't see from where you stand.

Lucas: You and I sit at the same table, Jared. The virtuous need us, but they can't stand the smell.