Quotes

Dialogue

Mickey: Think her family's gonna be okay that you're a white guy? Sgt. Cliff: They think any woman over 30 who isn't married is a lesbian. She figures, they'll be so relieved that I'm a man... Mickey: Yeah, it's always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.

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Bartender: I'm as liberal as the next guy. Sheriff Sam Deeds: If the next guy is a redneck.

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Chucho Montoya: You're the sheriff of Rio County, right? Un jefe mui respectado. [drawing a line in the sand] Step across this line. You're not the sheriff of nothing anymore, just some tejano with a lot of questions I don't have to answer. A bird flying south, you think he sees this line? Rattlesnake? Javelina? Whatever you got. You think halfway across that line they start thinking different? Why should a man? Sheriff Sam Deeds: Your government's always been pretty happy to have that line, the question's just been where to draw it. Chucho Montoya: My government can go fuck itself, and so can yours! I'm talking about people here. Men.

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Sheriff Sam Deeds: Mrs. Bledsoe? Minnie Bledsoe: That's me. Sheriff Sam Deeds: I'm Sheriff Deeds. Minnie Bledsoe: Sheriff Deeds is dead, honey. You just Sheriff Junior. Sheriff Sam Deeds: Yeah, that's the story of my life.

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Coworker: Your mother's family is Spanish? Pilar Cruz: Sure, they go back to Cortés. When he rode by, they were squatting in a hut cooking hamsters for dinner.