Texasville (1990)

Jeff Bridges: Duane Jackson

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• Jacy : It's ironic you broke all your ribs right before the Adam and Eve skit. I wonder what a psychiatrist would make of that.

  Duane : I din't break all my ribs, I just broke three.

  Jacy : That doesn't affect the irony honey-pie.

• Duane : Somebody must be making a fortune off fertility drugs in this county.

• Karla : I don't know what you've got to smile about!

  Duane Jackson : Well, it was either smile about nothing or cry about everything... And I didn't feel like cryin'.

• Duane : I thought you hated Jacy.

  Ruth Popper : I don't hold grudges for 30 years! She was just a girl then.

• Sonny Crawford : You know who dropped in to the Kwik Sack in the middle of the night? Jacy Farrow. She just looked through a few magazines.

  Duane : I guess you're the only one who's seen her since she's come back. Is she still as beautiful as ever?

  Sonny Crawford : Never took off her dark glasses. She's beautiful - but, she's old.

• Karla : Duane, why are you poking that gun in the water?

  Duane : I was thinkin' of shootin' my dick off. It's caused me nothin' but trouble my whole life.

  Karla : Well, just 'cause you're havin' a mid-life crisis, I don't think you ought to try and shoot your dick off.

  Duane : Why not? It don't work half the time, anyway.

  Karla : Well, I wouldn't be the one to know about that. But, it's a small target and if you miss, you're going to ruin our new hot tub.

• Duane : I don't know why we're even talkin' about this.

  Ruth Popper : Because, the oil business has gone belly up and there's nothin' for you to do but sleep with every woman you can find.

• Jacy : Where you going, Duane.

  Duane : I have to go to Odessa. It's the worst town on earth.

  Jacy : I'd like to see the worst town on earth. I've certainly seen several of the runner's up.

• Jacy : Are you really attached to that dog?

  Duane : He's my dog. Or else I'm his person. However you want to look at it.

• Jacy : If you could get me back in love with you, you wouldn't have to spend so much time makin' deals in ugly towns, would you? I might put my daddy's fortune at your disposal.

  Duane : Well, I never had you in love with me. You had me in love with you and that was in high school.

  Jacy : That's a good point, Duane. Did I have you madly in love?

  Duane : Madly.

  Jacy : I guess I once could summons some pretty mad love.

• Duane : You want Shorty? He's probably the single most hated livin' thing in Archer County, people included.

  Jacy : Come on, Duane. He's not Hitler. He's just a dog. I have to start to let some livin' thing back in my life. Even if it is just your scroungy old dog.

• Duane Jackson : It must be ten years since I've seen you wear anything I didn't have to read.

• Duane Jackson : Women have a heartless side to them, don't they?

  Lester Marlow : This whole town is heartless!

• Jacy : Are you the one I went skinny-dipping with?

  Duane : No, that was Lester Marlowe.

  Jacy : Well, I bet I was your favorite mermaid.

• Lester Marlow : Marylou likes excitement. She says I'm not exciting any more.

  Duane : Well, it's hard to stay exciting for a whole lifetime.

• Sonny Crawford : The pills make me feel like I got a fuzz in my head, sort of a warm fuzz... not a great feeling. I'd rather see movies in the sky.

  Duane : Well, maybe you ought to lay off the pills until the Centennial's over. We're all going to need our wits about us once that gets started.

  Sonny Crawford : I think my wits live somewhere else now.

• Duane : I doubt she'd even remember me, Ruth.

  Ruth Popper : You remember her, don't you? Why should her memory be worst than yours?

  Duane : Oh, I just meant we weren't friends any more.

  Ruth Popper : I think you'd rather go pick on footloose wives than help a woman you used to love.

• Marylou Marlow : You're son's a stinker. You want to hear how he seduced me and ruined my life?

  Duane Jackson : I don't know if I do. I got a lot of bad news today already.

  Marylou Marlow : I might be pregnant.

  Duane Jackson : Would it be Dickie's or Lester's?

  Marylou Marlow : Oh, Dickie's! I told Lester I couldn't be his outlet anymore. He is a good father though. Sometimes I feel guilty; but, mostly I feel its every person for themselves. You know what I mean?

• Rev. G.G. Rawley : You are a sinner! Your *wife* is a sinner! Your kids - fornicate and sell dope.

  Duane : I don't claim to be perfect, G.G.

• Minerva : That girl has really put on weight. She was skinny as a rail when she was in high school. Wasn't she, Duane?

  Duane Jackson : Yeah. Kinda skinny.

• Duane : What'd the twins do?

  Karla : Julie posed for naked Polaroids for some 6th grader and Jack crawled up in the rafters of the shit house and dropped a brick on the toilet, the toilet broke and pretty much flooded things. They said they'd appreciate it if you'd come down before lunch.

• Lee Roy : [calling on the CB Radio]  How 'bout it, Duane? You awake? Duane! You got your ears on?

  Duane : Yeah, I got you. Go on.

  Lee Roy : I think Libyan terrorists have kidnapped Sonny Crawford. He's been gone all night. They said on TV they sent in a bunch of hit squads.

  Duane : They didn't say the sent 'em to Anarene.

• Duane : You know who I saw swimmin' across that lake when I was out there? Jacy Farrow.

  Karla : I hear she's aged a lot.

• Julie : I don't see why you sent us here in the first place. These people are all Jesus Freaks.

  Duane Jackson : You're mother thought it would be a good idea for you to learn somethin' about the Bible.

  Julie : All I did was let a little boy from Nacona take a few pictures of my pee-pee. What's wrong with that? You and Mama go naked in the hot tub.

• Jacy : Do you think she goes down on him?

  Duane : I don't have any idea what they do.

  Jacy : You certainly have a dull attitude towards television. What's the point of it if you're not going speculate about the sex lives of people on game shows.

• Duane : You want to play Eve in the Centennial Pageant?

  Jacy : Eve?

  Duane : Director asked me to ask you.

  Jacy : Well, I suppose *your* gonna play Adam. Right?

  Duane : Maybe. Adam hasn't been cast.

• Duane : How's your brain problem?

  Sonny Crawford : Well, got some pills.

  Duane : Yeah? Do they work?

  Sonny Crawford : Oh, well, I don't see movies in the sky and I haven't lost my car lately. I guess that's an improvement.

  Duane : You don't seem too convinced.

  Sonny Crawford : No. The pills make me feel like I got fuzz in my head. Sort of a warm fuzz. Not a great feelin'. I'd rather see movies in the sky.

• Genevieve Morgan : That girl never would let you alone.

  Duane : Yeah. But she's not a girl anymore.

  Genevieve Morgan : Yeah, well, the older we get, the more dangerous.

• Duane : Italy. That sounds fine. You're young. You ought to get out and see the world. You don't have to make the oil patch your whole life.

  Dickie Jackson : Been your whole life though.

  Duane : Oh, that's my limitation. It don't have to be yours.

• Karla : Junior just went down the tubes.

  Duane : Well, they can call his notes, they can call mine. Where is Junior?

  Karla : He took his lariat rope out of the pickup and went off walkin' down the hill. Probably hung himself by now.

• Duane : I guess we're the only ones in the hospital.

  Jacy : And it's full of beds too. - - I don't want you to try an fuck me Duane.

  Duane : I wasn't going to.

  Jacy : No you weren't; but, you're gonna tie yourself up in knots thinkin' about it every time we're together. If you just relax about it we could have a certain amount of fun.

• Lester Marlow : I heard that Karla and Jacy were in love. It didn't particularly surprise me.

  Duane : It didn't?

  Lester Marlow : No. They're both advanced women.

• Jacy : Remember when I was homecoming queen, Duane?

  Duane : I sure do.

  Jacy : Bet you never thought we'd be standing here 30 years later as Adam and Eve.

  Duane : I never would have thought it, Jacy.

  Jacy : I feel like we are in a way. I feel like we're the Adam and Eve of this town.

• Karla : I don't want him to go away. I'll just build him a house out by us. And that way he won't get on your nerves.

  Duane : He's already gone away, honey. He's just gone away to the past.

• Duane : Why is Sonny living in your trailer? Why do you think you can live with someone who's crazy?

  Ruth Popper : Sonny's a very mild person. And he loved me once. I would have been dead long ago if Sonny hadn't loved me. I think it's my place to take him in.

  Duane : You're gettin' awfully Christian in your old age.

• Duane : Sonny is gettin' sicker. One week he thinks he sees movies. Next week he thinks he's in movies.