No Country for Old Men (film) Quotes
2007 films, Crime thriller films, Films based on novels, 2000s American films, Best Picture Academy Award winners, Films based on works by Cormac McCarthy, Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners, Films about psychopaths, Films directed by the Coen brothers, Films set in Texas, United States National Film Registry films
Top Quotes
“There are no laws.”
“There are no clean getaways.”
“You can't stop what's coming.”
“Woody Harrelson - Carson Wells”
“Where's the last man standing?”
“Tommy Lee Jones - Sheriff Ed Tom Bell”
“Barry Corbin - Ellis”
“Tess Harper - Loretta Bell”
“Josh Brolin - Llewelyn Moss”
“All the time you spend trying to get back what's been took from you, more is going out the back door.”
“Stephen Root - Man Who Hires Wells”
“Kelly Macdonald - Carla Jean Moss”
“Rotten Tomatoes: No Country for Old Men”
“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): No Country for Old Men”
“[opening monologue] I was Sheriff of this county when I was 25 years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman, father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time, him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time Sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough never carried one. That's the younger Jim. Gaston Borkins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can't help but wonder how they'd have operated in these times. There was this boy I sent to the electric chair at Huntsville here awhile back, my arrest and my testimony. He killed a 14 year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been plannin' to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out, he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell, be there in about fifteen minutes. I don't know what to make of that. I surely don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willin' to die to even do this job. but I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: "Okay, I'll be part of this world."”