Sounder (1972)

Paul Winfield: Nathan Lee

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• Nathan Lee : You know, son: there ain't no dog as good as Sounder. In all the years we've been tracking coons and possums in these woods, he ain't never tore one of 'em up yet. No, he always brought 'em back whole and healthy. Now you see? Now that's the difference between a hound dog that's mean and dirty, to one that's great - like old Sounder here.

• Rebecca : [at bedime]  I bet you could use a hot cup of coffee.

  [laughs] 

  Nathan Lee : I sure could, Miss Rebecca...

  Rebecca : Oh, Nathan Lee...

• Josie Mae : Lord, if this wasn't a Sunday, I do believe I'd do a dance to that music Ike's playing.

  Nathan Lee : Oh, go on, Harriet, and shake them feet. God ain't looking!

  Josie Mae : Now, I might be a country woman, but I ain't no fool!

• Nathan Lee : When the night comes in these parts, that old moon runs like a scared rabbit. You can stay out here all night just lookin' and not see a thing out yonder.

• Nathan Lee : But, like I always say...

  David Lee : "You lose some of the time what you always go after; but, you lose all the time what you don't go after."

  Nathan Lee : Now, who says I didn't put my mark on you, boy?

  [laughs] 

• Nathan Lee : You know, when I got this leg hurt, I was down in this rock quarry and all of a sudden there was this dynamite blast coming at me with the kind of force to kill 10 men. Well, so I - I got out the way of most of them rocks, faster than the lightning in God's mind, 'cause I made it up in my head, just that quick, that I was gonna beat the death that was coming at me. Well, that's what I'm going to do with this trouble in my leg. I'm gonna beat it. Ain't nothing left for me to do but to beat it. But that's what I want you to do. I want you to beat the life they got all laid out for you in this place, cause they ain't nothing here, ain't nobody here but them bastards that sent me... Son, don't get too used to this place.