No Country for Old Men (2007) quotes

Cast
Tommy Lee Jones.
Javier Bardem.
Josh Brolin.

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss.
– Anton Chigurh
Sir?
– Gas Station Proprietor
The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
– Anton Chigurh
I don’t know. I couldn’t say.
– Gas Station Proprietor
[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]
Call it.
– Anton Chigurh
Call it?
– Gas Station Proprietor
Yes.
– Anton Chigurh
For what?
– Gas Station Proprietor
Just call it.
– Anton Chigurh
Well, we need to know what we’re calling it for here.
– Gas Station Proprietor
You need to call it. I can’t call it for you. It wouldn’t be fair.
– Anton Chigurh
I didn’t put nothin’ up.
– Gas Station Proprietor
Yes, you did. You’ve been putting it up your whole life you just didn’t know it. You know what date is on this coin?
– Anton Chigurh
No.
– Gas Station Proprietor
1958. It’s been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it’s here. And it’s either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
– Anton Chigurh
Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
– Gas Station Proprietor
Everything.
– Anton Chigurh
How’s that?
– Gas Station Proprietor
You stand to win everything. Call it.
– Anton Chigurh
Alright. Heads then.
– Gas Station Proprietor
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Well done.
– Anton Chigurh
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he’s apparently won while Chigurh starts out]
Don’t put it in your pocket, sir. Don’t put it in your pocket. It’s your lucky quarter.
– Anton Chigurh
Where do you want me to put it?
– Gas Station Proprietor
Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it’ll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
– Anton Chigurh
[Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out]

If I don’t come back, tell mother I love her.
– Llewelyn Moss
Your mother’s dead, Llewelyn.
– Carla Jean Moss
Well then I’ll tell her myself.
– Llewelyn Moss

You know Charlie Walser? Has the place east of Sanderson? Well you know how they used to slaughter beeves, hit ’em with a maul right here to stun ’em… and then up and slit their throats? Well here Charlie has one trussed up and all set to drain him and the beef comes to. It starts thrashing around, six hundred pounds of very pissed-off livestock if you’ll pardon me… Charlie grabs his gun there to shoot the damn thing in the head but what with the swingin’ and twistin’ it’s a glance-shot and ricochets around and comes back hits Charlie in the shoulder. You go see Charlie, he still can’t reach up with his right hand for his hat… Point bein’, even in the contest between man and steer the issue is not certain.
– Ed Tom Bell

What you got ain’t nothin’ new. This country’s hard on people. You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.
– Ellis

[about Chigurh]
Just how dangerous is he?
– Man who hires Wells
Compared to what? The bubonic plague?
– Carson Wells

That man that shot you died in prison.
– Ed Tom Bell
Angola. Yeah…
– Ellis
What you’d done he had been released?
– Ed Tom Bell
Oh, I dunno. Nothing. Wouldn’t be no point in it.
– Ellis
I’m kindly surprised to hear you say that.
– Ed Tom Bell
Well all the time ya spend trying to get back what’s been took from ya, more is going out the door. After a while you just have to try to get a tourniquet on it. Your granddad never asked me to sign on as a deputy.
– Ellis

Are you going to shoot me?
– Nervous Accountant
That depends. Do you see me?
– Anton Chigurh

[talking to Ellis]
I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come inta my life somehow. And he didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does.
– Ed Tom Bell

But I think once you quit hearing “sir” and “ma’am,” the rest is soon to foller.
– Ed Tom Bell

That’s very linear Sheriff.
– Wendell
Well, age will flatten a man.
– Ed Tom Bell