Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) quotes
Director
Martin McDonagh.
Cast
Frances McDormand.
Woody Harrelson.
Sam Rockwell.
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
Hey fuckhead!
– Mildred Hayes
What?
– Dixon
Don’t say what, Dixon. When she comes in calling you a “fuckhead.”
– Desk Sergeant
Why are you never on my side, Robbie?
– Angela
I’m always on your side when you’re not being a cunt!
– Robbie
Hey!
– Angela, Mildred Hayes
There will be no more “cunts” in this house. You got that, mister?
– Mildred Hayes
What? Are you moving out?
– Robbie
So how’s it all going in the nigger- torturing business, Dixon?
– Mildred Hayes
It’s ‘Persons of color’-torturing business, these days, if you want to know. And I didn’t torture nobody.
– Dixon
This didn’t put an end to shit, you fucking retard; this is just the fucking start. Why don’t you put that on your Good Morning Missouri fucking wake up broadcast, bitch?
– Mildred Hayes
All this anger, man, it just begets greater anger.
– Charlie
Hey, Dixon?
– Mildred Hayes
Yeah?
– Dixon
I need to tell you something… It was me that burned down the police station.
– Mildred Hayes
Well, who the hell else would it have been?
– Dixon
What are you, an idiot?
– Dixon
Don’t call me an idiot, Dixon!
– Desk Sergeant
I didn’t call you an idiot, I asked if you was an idiot… That was a question.
– Dixon
What’s the law on what ya can and can’t say on a billboard? I assume it’s ya can’t say nothing defamatory, and ya can’t say, ‘Fuck’ ‘Piss’ or ‘Cunt’. That right?
– Mildred Hayes
Or… Anus.
– Red Welby
Well I think I’ll be alright then.
– Mildred Hayes
We’ve had two official complaints about the billboards, so, actually…
– Dixon
From who?
– Willoughby
A lady with a funny eye… and a fat dentist.
– Dixon
Give me the file on the Angela Hayes case.
– Willoughby
A lady with a funny fucking eye?… Jesus Christ.
– Willoughby
I’d do anything to catch the guy who did it, Mrs. Hayes, but when the DNA don’t match no one who’s ever been arrested, and when the DNA don’t match any other crime nationwide, and there wasn’t a single eyewitness from the time she left your house to the time we found her, well… right now there ain’t too much more we could do.
– Willoughby
You could pull blood from every man and boy in this town over the age of 8.
– Mildred Hayes
There’s civil rights laws prevents that, Mrs. Hayes, and what if he was just passing through town?
– Willoughby
Pull blood from every man in the country.
– Mildred Hayes
And what if he was just passing through the country?
– Willoughby
If it was me, I’d start up a database, every male baby was born, stick ’em on it, and as soon as he done something wrong, cross reference it, make 100% certain it was a correct match, then kill him.
– Mildred Hayes
Yeah well, there’s definitely civil rights laws that prevents that.
– Willoughby
If you got rid of every cop with vaguely racist leanings, then you’d have three cops left, and all o’ them are gonna hate the fags, so what are ya gonna do, y’know?
– Willoughby
Those billboards aren’t gonna bring her back, Mildred.
– Charlie
Neither is fucking nineteen-year olds, Charlie.
– Mildred Hayes
You know, I didn’t have to come and hold your ladder.
– James
You old cunt!
– Robbie
I’m not old, Robbie.
– Mildred Hayes
Dixon?
– Mildred Hayes
Yeah?
– Dixon
Are you sure about this?
– Mildred Hayes
‘Bout killing this guy? Not really. You?
– Dixon
Not really. I guess we can decide along the way.
– Mildred Hayes
Did you really tell him Anger begets greater anger?
– Mildred Hayes
Oh, yes! I did! I didn’t make it up myself though. I can’t claim that! No, I read it on a bookmark. Which was in a book I was reading. About polio.
– Penelope
Polo.
– Charlie
No, which is the one with the horses? Polio? Polo?
– Penelope
Polo.
– Charlie
Dixon, you goddamn asshole. I’m in the middle of my goddamn Easter dinner… Sorry, kids.
– Willoughby
What’s the matter with you, saying that goddamn stuff on TV?… My momma watches that station.
– Dixon
She doesn’t know about the torturing?
– Mildred Hayes
No. She’s against that kinda thing.
– Dixon
Who’s against what?
– Willoughby
My momma is against persons-of-color-torturing. She said nigger-torturing. I said, You can’t say nigger-torturing no more. You gotta say persons-of-color-torturing. Isn’t that right, Chief?
– Dixon
Wow. When you can’t trust the lawyers and the advertising men, what the hell’s America coming to, huh?
– Mildred Hayes