Cold Mountain (2003)

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Reverend Veasey

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• Veasey : Oh God of my God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

  Junior : What's up?

  Veasey : The Israelites! The tribes of Israel are about to flee from the banks of Egypt! Hallelujah!

  Inman : He's got a shit coming on. It's overdue.

• [Veasey finds a saw] 

  Veasey : Hey! Look at this! This is a good saw.

  Inman : It's not yours. You take it, you make us another enemy. You are a Christian- don't you know your commandments?

  Veasey : You'll find the good Lord very flexible on the subject of property. We could do a lot with this saw. Cut down a tree. Play music with it. You're gonna thank me for this saw.

  Inman : I'll say thank you when I've lost you and I've found some food.

• Ferrygirl : [to Inman and Veasey]  Thirty more dollars, we can go to the cabin. I'll pull this dress over my head.

  Veasey : [to Inman]  Have we got thirty dollars?

• Veasey : I'm so plugged up. Used to be as regular as morning prayers. Matter of fact I could set my watch by my bowels. That beeswax you fed me, day before yesterday, it stops a man up. Open my gut now they'd find turds stacked up like little black twigs.

• Veasey : Thank you. I was going to do a grievous wrong.

• Veasey : The members will lynch me for sirin' a bastard while servin' as their preacher. We're a strict congregation. We've churched men for pickin' up a fiddle on the Sabbath.

• Veasey : I'm God's minister.

  Inman : What part of God's business is throwin' a woman down a gorge?

  Veasey : A slave woman, Can you see that in this light? Black as a bucket of tar.

  Inman : Is she dead?

  Veasey : No. I drugged her, like you would a butterfly, And I care for her. That's the heartbreak of it. She's got my bastard in her belly.

• Veasey : They cut off my hair. That was hard. I was vain about my hair. I had curls. But I deserved it. I'm the Reverend Veasey. Have I seen you in church?

  Ferrygirl : No, Not likely to, neither. I'd say these days, the devil rules the roost. We can go over to that cabin and I can pull this dress over my head.

  Veasey : Have we got $30?

• Junior : Brought my woman home, she showed up with her three sisters, so-called, and their brats. That's Mae, Dolly, Shyla, and the pretty one in blue is my wife, Lila,

  Veasey : Those are fine examples of the female,

• Inman : [to Veasey]  I should have shot you when I had the chance.

  Veasey : Please yourself. I'm just being a Christian.