Deliverance (1972) quotes

Director
John Boorman.

Cast
Jon Voight.
Burt Reynolds.
Ned Beatty.

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it’s dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they’ll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself ‘fore you can find anything.
– Lewis

Explain this to me again. I didn’t know somebody could shoot themself with their own arrow.
– Doctor

Mister, I love the way you wear that hat.
– Bobby
You don’t know nothin’.
– Old man

Don’t ever do nothin’ like this again. Don’t come back up here.
– Sherrif Bullard
You don’t have to worry about that, Sheriff.
– Bobby

Drew was a… a good husband to his wife Linda, and… you were a wonderful father to your boys, Drew… Jimmy and Billy Ray. And if we come through this, I promise to do all I can for ’em.
– Ed
He was the best of us.
– Ed

Look, what is it that you require of us?
– Ed
What we, uh, “re-quire” is that you get your god-damn asses up in them woods.
– Mountain Man

I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!
– Mountain Man
Weee!
– Bobby
Weeeeeeee!
– Mountain Man
Weee!
– Bobby

Where you goin’ city boy?
– First Griner
We’ll find it. We’ll find it.
– Lewis
It ain’t nothin’ but the biggest fuckin’ river in the state.
– Second Griner

Goddamn, you play a mean banjo.
– Drew

We beat it, didn’t we? Didn’t we beat that?
– Bobby
You don’t beat it. You don’t beat this river…
– Lewis

Do know what’s gonna be here? Right here? A lake. As far as the eyes can see. Hundreds of feet deep. HUNDREDS of feet deep. Did you ever look out over a lake and think of somethin’ buried underneath it? Buried underneath it. Well man, that’s just about as buried as you can get.
– Lewis

That’s him? I mean… he wasn’t just some guy out hunting, was it?
– Bobby
You tell me!
– Ed

No matter what disasters may occur in other parts of the world… or whatever petty little problems arise in Atlanta… no one can find us up here. Good night, Lewis.
– Ed

Night has fallen. And there’s nothin’ we can do about it.
– Ed

Talk about genetic deficiencies-isn’t that pitiful?
– Bobby

That’s my ’51 Dodge. No, that’s my car! That’s my car! Whooee! All my youth and passion… spent in that back seat. It’s all gone, you see? It’s all gone – rust and dust.
– Bobby

Looks like we got us a sow here instead of a boar.
– Mountain Man

Lewis, is this how you get your rocks off?
– Bobby

Anybody know anything about the law?
– Lewis
I was on a jury once.
– Drew