Gator (1976)

Burt Reynolds: Gator McKlusky

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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!

• 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] 

• 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"?

• Gator McKlusky : You think you got me by the short hairs?

  Irving Greenfield : Yes, I do.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Young Girl : 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.

  Gator McKlusky : 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 16. Bama likes it that way.

• Gator McKlusky : I want to go home.

  Bama McCall : There ain't nothing waitin' on you at home except a whiskey bust.

• Gator McKlusky : He works for a ladies' hygiene spray. I believe it's called "Sprunt."

• Aggie Maybank : You're a schmuck.

  Gator McKlusky : Did you learn that at Vassar?

  Aggie Maybank : Radcliffe.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• Gator McKlusky : Won't that be a little dangerous?

  Emmeline Cavanaugh : Oh, it'll be thrilling!

• 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?

• Aggie Maybank : I don't know anything about you.

  Gator McKlusky : I don't know anything about me, either.

• 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.

• Gator McKlusky : Want to give me a hand?

  Aggie Maybank : I'll give you two.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?