Gator (1976)
Burt Reynolds: Gator McKlusky
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Quotes
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Bama McCall : [Bama is introducing Gator to his seven-foot-tall bodyguard] Ask him why they call him "Bones."
Gator McKlusky : Why they call you "Bones?"
Bones : Because I TELL them to!
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Aggie Maybank : [Gator and Aggie are lying on the beach together at night, talking. Aggie sits up, in front of Gator] You've charmed the shirt...
Aggie Maybank : [Unbuttons and removes her shirt] ... right off my back.
Gator McKlusky : Take off Uncle Henry's hat.
[She removes the hat, let's her hair flow down, and covers her breasts with the hat. Gator kisses her, they embrace and lie down in the sand, still kissing]
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Irving Greenfield : Look at this. I'm riding with a nut named Gator, looking for a putz named Bama! Don't you people have regular names?
Gator McKlusky : Oh, you mean them intelligent names, like you've got up in New York City? Like "Yogi"?
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Gator McKlusky : You think you got me by the short hairs?
Irving Greenfield : Yes, I do.
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Gator McKlusky : Yes, you is going back to school. Come September, you're gonna be in school, girl.
Suzie McKlusky : Can I play football?
Gator McKlusky : Yeah.
Smiley : And wear pretty little dresses, too.
Suzie McKlusky : Don't like no dresses.
Gator McKlusky : Well, your momma sure did.
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Irving Greenfield : We're undercover men, goddamn it! Oh, shit.
Gator McKlusky : Undercover. You, undercover in Dunston. You're gonna stick out in Dunston, like a bagel in a bucket of grits.
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Smiley : Understand you just got out of the clinker?
Gator McKlusky : Yeah.
Smiley : Well, I ain't never been, but I hear there's a whole bunch of queers just crawlin' all over your body up there.
Gator McKlusky : Yeah, that's what they say.
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Gator McKlusky : She can't be more than 15.
Bama McCall : Hell, I don't go by age, I go by weight, anyway. I mean, hell, your momma and my momma both done married, done had young'uns and the whole shootin' match when they wasn't a damn bit older than she was.
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Bama McCall : Gator, look. Son, I don't hook these chicks. I don't hustle these chicks. I damn sure don't go out on the street and drag them in here. They come in to pay for that habit they got.
Gator McKlusky : Well, there's money, and then there's money, Bama.
Bama McCall : I didn't make the world the way it was, Gator.
Gator McKlusky : No, you just collect off it.
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Gator McKlusky : What's she on?
Bama McCall : She's on Quaaludes. She's on Mandrax. She's on Parest. She's on coke. You name it, son. I mean, if they make it, then that chick'll take it.
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Young Girl : [lying on red satin sheets] Why are you so far away? Come here. I'll treat you like a king.
Gator McKlusky : Why would you want to do that?
Young Girl : I could do things. Certain things.
[opens up music box, takes out coke, sniffs it]
Gator McKlusky : [got offered some coke, struck the young girl's hand away, grabs her by her shoulders] How old are you?
Young Girl : Fifteen and a half.
Gator McKlusky : Fifteen and a half?
Young Girl : Ain't nobody up here older than sixteen. Bama likes it that way.
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Gator McKlusky : I want to go home.
Bama McCall : There ain't nothing waitin' on you at home except a whiskey bust.
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Gator McKlusky : He works for a ladies' hygiene spray. I believe it's called "Sprunt."
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Aggie Maybank : You're a schmuck.
Gator McKlusky : Did you learn that at Vassar?
Aggie Maybank : Radcliffe.
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Irving Greenfield : Look, I remember when I was a kid in Brooklyn there were guys like Thurman Arnold and Fiorello LaGuardia around. What do you think they'd do now?
Gator McKlusky : Fiorello who?
Irving Greenfield : LaGuardia, you putz! He cleaned up New York 35 years ago.
Gator McKlusky : Oh, yeah? It got dirty again.
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Aggie Maybank : Can I buy you a drink?
Gator McKlusky : Is a pig's ass pork? 'Course you can buy me a drink. Women's lib, I love it. Just because you buy me a drink, doesn't mean you own me, you know. I know how you are, you turn into an octopus. You women are all alike. You're all animals.
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Aggie Maybank : Where you going?
Gator McKlusky : I'm gonna find a massage parlor.
Aggie Maybank : Wait a minute. Don't you want to talk to Miss Cavanaugh?
Gator McKlusky : Does she give massages?
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Gator McKlusky : Won't that be a little dangerous?
Emmeline Cavanaugh : Oh, it'll be thrilling!
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Gator McKlusky : Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Who said that you could make all the decisions? Who said that you could make all the decisions? I should be making the decisions. That was a - that was a good decision that you made there. Wasn't that a good one that she made there?
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Aggie Maybank : I don't know anything about you.
Gator McKlusky : I don't know anything about me, either.
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Gator McKlusky : I think I was born about 100 years too late. I should have been around when not having any style was in style.
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Gator McKlusky : Want to give me a hand?
Aggie Maybank : I'll give you two.
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Gator McKlusky : I saw you last night.
Aggie Maybank : You did! Did you really?
Gator McKlusky : Yes.
Aggie Maybank : Did you really? National! I went national. Did you hear how Cronkite introduced me?
Gator McKlusky : Well, I don't remember the exact words.
Aggie Maybank : Why not? I did.
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Aggie Maybank : Do you like the ocean?
Gator McKlusky : I love the ocean.
Aggie Maybank : Me, too.
Gator McKlusky : It's beautiful. Sometimes, I hate to look at it all at once, though. I have to look at it a little bit at a time. I'm afraid if I look at it all at once, it'll disappear. That's the way I have to look at you. A little bit at a time. I'm afraid if I look at you all at once, you'll disappear.
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Gator McKlusky : What do you want to do?
Aggie Maybank : I want to win a Pulitzer Prize and make love to you on the terrace of a New York apartment. A penthouse, in fact.
Gator McKlusky : Settle for an old Rotary Club football trophy and a hump in the swamp?
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Gator McKlusky : [back from jail] You want some breakfast, girl?
Suzie McKlusky : I done ate before you got up.
Ned McKlusky : [more faults found] Yeah! What time did they wake you up in that place?
[Gator laughs]
Ned McKlusky : You know, you hang around with murderers and thieves and crooks and Lord knows what else. Them ain't nice people for you to hang around with.
Gator McKlusky : [laughs] I'll try to remember that, Pop, it's a good idea.
Ned McKlusky : You done lost all your respect for quality. Now you name me one thing of quality that you can do today.
Gator McKlusky : Licence plates.
Ned McKlusky : Licence plates?
Gator McKlusky : Yeah. I can make quality licence plates. I was gonna make one of them personalised ones for you. But I didn't know how to spell "senile."
Ned McKlusky : Senile, am I? I'm gonna have to take you down a notch or two, Gator! How'd you like I put a Dutch rub on you, right now, huh?
Suzie McKlusky : [laughing merrily] Do it, Grandpa! Do it, Grandpa!
Ned McKlusky : And you, young lady, mind your manners. Gator, this child's been out of school too long.