Nadine (1987)

Rip Torn: Buford Pope

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• Buford Pope : Why is it you work your butt off all your entire life just to get ahead, and it takes a couple of nitwits about ten minutes to screw the whole thing up?

• Buford Pope : I swear you two are living testimony to the fact that it's better to be lucky than smart!

• Vernon Hightower : First one comes close gets a face full of rattlesnake.

  Buford Pope : Oh, goddamn it, man. You lost your mind? You let them snakes out of there, they'll go after you as well as us.

  Vernon Hightower : [to Floyd]  All right, you. Get your car keys out, put them on the desk. Get against the wall.

  Buford Pope : You do that, boy, you'll be wrestling duck shit come Thursday night.

  Vernon Hightower : Floyd, you *don't* get those car keys out here... you're gonna be wrestling a diamondback in about one minute.

  Floyd : [glumly hands over the car keys]  You're gonna' pay for this.

• Buford Pope : Well, Mr. Hightower, let's us have a little talk here. I know you're in what they call "financial straits." So why don't you let my boys here set fire to that dump of yours? That way, at least you'll collect on the fire insurance. All you have to do is hand over the map.

  Vernon Hightower : I appreciate that, but that won't do me no good now. See, I let the insurance lapse about a month ago.

• Buford Pope : [referring to the wrecking yard where he's holding Vernon and Nadine]  This place looks like pure-D dog shit, don't it? You may not think it, but there's enough explosives here... if you put a little gasoline in the right place, light a match at the wrong time... this dump would go up like a Roman candle. There'd be no way they'd ever find your bodies.

  Buford Pope : [to his henchmen]  Take them on in and shoot them.