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Jack Bondurant: Tell your daddy I said "hi".
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Forrest Bondurant: I'm a Bondurant. We don't lay down for nobody.
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Forrest Bondurant: I thought I walked.
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Forrest Bondurant: It is not the violence that sets men apart, alright, it is the distance that he is prepared to go.
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Forrest Bondurant: Have you met Howard?
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Maggie Beauford: Are you Forrest Bondurant? I'm Maggie Beauford.
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Charlie Rakes: Do you mean immortal?
[laughter]
Charlie Rakes: You fucking hicks are a sideshow onto yourselves.
[laughter continues]
Charlie Rakes: Sheriff, do you have any idea what a Thompson submachine gun does to an immortal?
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Maggie Beauford: You just gonna watch me forever?
Forrest Bondurant: Um... uh, wait, what you doin'?
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Jack Bondurant: You can make moonshine whiskey from just about anything. Turnips, pumpkins, blackberries, cornmeal, tree bark. Anything.
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Floyd Banner: I respect you Bondurants standing up to that Commonwealth's District Attorney. He's got everybody in his pocket. He takes a shit and half of Virginia falls out his ass.
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Maggie Beauford: [to Forrest Bondurant] Isn't that just like you to believe your own damn legend?
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Bertha Minnix: You're an outlaw Jack.
Jack Bondurant: No, it's just a matter of perspective. I'm just doing what any man around here would do if he had the same strength of character.
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Forrest Bondurant: Jack, look at me. We're survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Do you understand? - Do you?
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Floyd Banner: [after knocking out Gummy Walsh with a shovel] I've got every lawman in three fucking states up my ass. The last thing I need is some hard-ass crackers pulling a blood feud on me! Now get this sack of shit out of here!
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Charlie Rakes: You see, these mountain boys got injun blood in them. Cherokee. This would explain why they're animalistic in their nature.
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Forrest Bondurant: [to beaten up deputies] Now, you all oughta know better than to come around here when Hal's been on the stump whiskey for a few days.
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[last lines]
Jack Bondurant: Nowadays we Bondurants abide by the law. People ain't tryin' to cut our throats, stab us, or shoot us no more. Them days are long gone. Sometimes when I'm out on the porch just sittin' around doin' nothin', hell, it sure does get real quite around here.
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Forrest Bondurant: What I'm trying to say is, the course of your life it is changing. You don't even see it.
Mugger #2: What are you talkin' bout?
[Forrest punches him with iron knuckles, knocking mugger unconscious]
Howard Bondurant: Yeah, that's what he's talking' bout.
Howard Bondurant: [Looking at a shocked Jack Bondurant] You alright there, Jack?
Jack Bondurant: Caught me off guard is all.
Howard Bondurant: You still good to drive?
[Forrest laughs]
Jack Bondurant: Fuck you, Howard.
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Jack Bondurant: [narrating] My brother Forrest once said, "Nothing can kill us. We can't never die."The reason being that in the great war, my eldest brother, Howard, saw his entire battalion drown in the sea. Every last one of them. He was the only survivor.
Jack Bondurant: And Forrest, well, that same year, Spanish Lady flu hit Franklin, damn near wiped out the entire state. It got Ma and Pa and Forrest but against all the odds, he somehow managed to fight it off. So you could see why Forrest felt that way.
Jack Bondurant: Me and my brothers are moonshiners. Bootleggers. In 1920, they passed the Prohibition Act making the sale of alcohol illegal. Well, at least it was supposed to be.
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