Hud Quotes

Homer Bannon: That's your solution for getting out of a tight? To pass bad beef on to my neighbors who wouldn't know what they was getting? Or maybe risk starting an epidemic in the entire country?

Hud Bannon: This country is run on epidemics, where you been? Price fixing, crooked TV shows, inflated expense accounts. How many honest men you know? Why you separate the saints from the sinners, you're lucky to wind up with Abraham Lincoln. Now I want out of this spread what I put into it, and I say let us dip our bread into some of that gravy while it is still hot.

Homer Bannon: You're an unprincipled man Hud.

Hud Bannon: Don't let that worry you none. You got enough for both of us.

[first lines]

Lonnie Bannon: OK, thanks for the lift.

Lonnie Bannon: I wouldn't mind driving her the long way home.

Hud Bannon: You ought to take a crack at that. Get all the good you can out of seventeen 'cause it sure wears out in one hell of a hurry.

Lonnie Bannon: It's a lonely old night isn't it?

Hud Bannon: Ain't they all?

Pastor: I know what you're feeling, my boy. Look at it this way, he's gone to a better place.

Lonnie Bannon: I don't think so... not unless dirt is a better place than air.

Hud Bannon: Man like that sounds no better than a heel.

Alma Brown: Aren't you all?

Hud Bannon: Honey don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of 'em's got fleas.

Alma Brown: I was married to Ed for six years. Only thing he was ever good for was to scratch my back where I couldn't reach it.

Hud Bannon: You still got that itch?

Alma Brown: Off and on.

Hud Bannon: Well let me know when it gets to bothering you.

[a cowboy has taken exception to Lon looking at his girlfriend]

Hud Bannon: Now wait a minute. You sure you didn't give him some encouragement? 'Cause I was sittin' way across the room and got a little encouraged watchin' you move around inside that dress.

Angry cowboy: Why, you...

Hud Bannon: Now I don't want to be hoggish. Lon, you want some of him?

[Hud sucker punches the cowboy]

[Hud has grabbed a rifle and shot at the buzzards]

Homer Bannon: Don't do that, Hud; they help keep the country clean. Besides, it's against the law.

Hud Bannon: Well, I've always thought the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. Sometimes I lean one way and sometimes I lean the other.

Hud Bannon: I'll do anything to make you trade him.

Alma Brown: No thanks. I've done my time with one cold-blooded bastard, I'm not looking for another.

Hud Bannon: Too late, honey, you already found him.

Hud Bannon: Give me a clean white shirt.

Alma Brown: Boy, you're real big with the "please" and "thank you," aren't you?

Hud Bannon: Please get up off your lazy butt and get me a clean white shirt. Thank you.

Hud Bannon: You're half native already. I've never seen you in a pair of shoes since you have work here.

Alma Brown: I wore'em once. I think to get married in. White satin pumps. I don't have'em anymore or the man either.

Lonnie Bannon: Probably you think I'm a jerk.

Hud Bannon: You don't care what I think.

Lonnie Bannon: This probably gonna hand you a big laugh, but I do.

Hud Bannon: You have another little drink and I'll have another little drink. Then maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Hud Bannon: [about selling oil leases for his land] My daddy thinks oil is something you stick in your salad dressing.

Homer Bannon: If there's oil down there, you can get it sucked up after I'm under there with it. There'll be no holes punched in this land while I'm here. They ain't gonna come in and grade no roads so the wind can blow me away. What's oil to me? What can I do with a bunch of oil wells? I can't ride out every day and prowl amongst 'em like I can my cattle. I can't breed 'em or tend 'em or rope 'em or chase 'em or nothing. I can't feel a smidgen of pride in 'em 'cause they ain't none of my doing.

Hud Bannon: There's money in it.

Homer Bannon: I don't want that kind of money. I want mine to come from something that keeps a man doing for himself.

Hud Bannon: [In his first scene, Hud has been sleeping with Joe's wife; he blames it on Lonnie. Joe is ready to kill Lonnie when Hud cuts in] ... My nephew's diabetic, but don't worry; I'll cool his temperature but good.

[to Lonnie]

Hud Bannon: Relax; you'll be able to charge a stud fee for yourself, after that story gets around town.

Alma Brown: [Hud has just parked his pink Cadillac on Alma's flower bed] Why do you always park that thing in my flowers?

Hud Bannon: If you don't like it, then don't plant them where I park.

Lonnie Bannon: [Referring to the slaughtr of the cattle] It didn't take long.

Homer Bannon: It don't take long to kill things, not like it does to grow.

Lonnie Bannon: Didn't take long.

Homer Bannon: It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

Hud Bannon: Ah, look at them buzzards! They'll be back. You couldn't scare 'em off with artillery.

Homer Bannon: I wish you wouldn't do that, Hud. They keep the country clean. Besides, there's a law against killing buzzards.

Hud Bannon: Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do: sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.