Red Stovall Quotes in Honkytonk Man (1982)

Red Stovall: What's a girl like you going to do in Nashville? Have you any money or friends? What are you gonna do, live in the streets?

Marlene: The Lord will provide.

Red Stovall: He'd better provide you a way of gettin' there, too.

Whit: Uncle Red, don't you think you have a problem with your drinking?

Red Stovall: Only when I can't get it.

Whit: I mean - don't you think you might need some help with your drinking?

Red Stovall: No, I do quite well all by myself.

Red Stovall: Mary was right to go back to her husband. What the hell did I have to offer a kid? Just honky-tonks and flop-houses. That's the life of a country singer, Hoss. Sound good to you?

Whit: It don't sound too hot when you put it like that, but it sure beats picking cotton and living in a sharecropper's shack.