Sheriff Duke Quotes in A Small Town in Texas (1976)

Sheriff Duke: [to Poke] I don't wanna see the sun rise on your ass boy!

Sheriff Duke: [Realizing that Poke took the money] Lenny, pick up Poke Jackson.

Lenny: What's the charge?

Sheriff Duke: Same damn thing... Possession.

Sheriff Duke: [Sheriff Duke drives his car into a building, and Lenny is thrown out] Lenny, you alright?

Lenny: Yeah.

Sheriff Duke: Shut the door.

Sheriff Duke: [to C.J. Crane] Get your ass out of my chair.

Sheriff Duke: Lenny, I want you to put out an all points bulletin on Poke Jackson... Armed and dangerous.

Lenny: But Duke, he didn't take our weapons.

Sheriff Duke: Lenny, are you hard of hearing?... I said armed and dangerous.

Sheriff Duke: [to C.J. Crane] I'm gonna get Poke Jackson in my own way.

Sheriff Duke: [to C.J. Crane] If I go down, I'm taking ya with me!

Sheriff Duke: [Poke has just arrived in town] I'm the sheriff now.

Poke Jackson: How'd ya pull that one off, Duke?

Sheriff Duke: Duly elected by the people.

Sheriff Duke: [Duke is beating up Boogie] Boy, you know I hate losing my temper... Cause when I do, I get indigestion... And that makes me angry!

Sheriff Duke: [Lenny has been looking at himself in the mirror] Boy, one of these days, that guy in the mirror is gonna shoot your balls off... If you don't get him first.

Sheriff Duke: [after gets the money off Poke] Ya know somethin' Poke?... Ya always did have a big mouth!... Ya know somethin' else?... I always did wanna shut it for ya!... Ya almost killed the kid and Mary Lee, and ya killed a deputy!... That's murder, boy!

Sheriff Duke: [Duke has just caught Poke and Mary Lee] Hey Lenny, that's another thing we're gonna hafta charge this old boy with... Kidnapping.

Mary Lee: He didn't kidnap us, we went with him.

Sheriff Duke: Yeah, that was smart... You could'a got youself and the kid killed.

Sheriff Duke: I remember 1974... My wife as so god damn beautiful. We had just gotten married and I didn't think things would get any better for me at the time. I had just started my first patrol and had my entire career ahead of me. She had told me she was pregnant and I remember I just sat down... I just sat down right where I was at. I think... I was in Dave Solinski's garage when I got the call and I just sat right down on the ground. At first I was so... happy. I was the happiest son of a bitch on the planet I told her how much I loved her and she told me she loved me even more. But... after she hung the phone up I started thinking... This was probably going to be the happiest moment of my entire life. Right then. The summit on top of the mountain you know? And a thought came to me like a thunder bolt... that I'd never be that happy again. I got... so... god damn depressed and I just wanted blow my brains out... right there... on the floor... in Dave Solinski's garage.