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Alvin Straight: You don't think about getting old when you're young... you shouldn't.
Steve: Must be something good about gettin' old?
Alvin Straight: Well I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time but, still at my age I've seen about all that life has to dish out. I know to separate the wheat from the chaff, and let the small stuff fall away.
Rat: That's cool, man. So, uh, what's the worst part about being old, Alvin?
Alvin Straight: Well, the worst part of being old is rememberin' when you was young.
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Sig: What do you need that grabber for, Alvin?
Alvin: Grabbin'.
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Dorothy: What's the number for 911?
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Alvin: I'd give each one of 'em a stick and, one for each one of 'em, then I'd say, 'You break that.' Course they could real easy. Then I'd say, 'Tie them sticks in a bundle and try to break that.' Course they couldn't. Then I'd say, "That bundle... that's family."
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Alvin Straight: There's no one knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but, I'm trying to put that behind me... and this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late... a brother's a brother.
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Alvin Straight: Anger, vanity, you mix that together with liquor, you've got two brothers that haven't spoken in ten years. Ah, whatever it was that made me and Lyle so mad... don't matter anymore. I want to make peace, I want to sit with him, look up at the stars... like we used to do, so long ago.
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Alvin Straight: I haven't had a drink in a lotta years, but now I'm gonna have me a cold beer.
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Alvin Straight: I want to thank you for your kindness to a stranger.
Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: It's been a genuine pleasure having you here, Alvin. Write to us some time.
Alvin Straight: I will.
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Pete: He'll never make it past the Grotto.
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[last lines]
Lyle Straight, Alvin's Brother: Did you ride that thing all the way out here to see me?
Alvin Straight: I did, Lyle.
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[first lines]
Dorothy: Hi Rose.
Rose 'Rosie' Straight: Hi Dorothy.
Alvin Straight: [can be heard collapsing inside his house]
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Danny Riordan, Clermont Resident: Well, you know, Alvin, there's a lot of hills bigger than Clairmont's between here and Zion. Even if you get that mower running again, it might still break down.
Alvin Straight: Well, you're a kind man talking to a stubborn man.
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Alvin Straight: The worst part of being old is remembering when you was young.
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Alvin Straight: You hungry?
Crystal: Waddaya got?
Alvin Straight: Wieners.
Crystal: Wieners?
Alvin Straight: Wieners. Wanna try one?
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Alvin Straight: Well, they may be mad. I don't think they're mad enough to want to lose you, or your little problem.
Crystal: I don't know about that.
Alvin Straight: Well, of course, neither do I, but a warm bed and a roof sounds a mite better than eating a hot dog on a stick with an old geezer that's travelling on a lawnmower.
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Alvin Straight: Can I help you, lady?
Deer Woman: No, you can't help me. No one can help me. I've tried driving with my lights on, I've tried sounding my horn, I scream out the window, I-I roll the window down and bang on the side of the door and play Public Enemy real loud! I have prayed to St. Francis of Assisi, St. Christopher too-what the heck! I've tried everything a person can do, and still, every week, I plow into at least one deer! I have hit thirteen deer in seven weeks driving down this road, mister! And I have to drive down this road! Every day, forty miles back and forth to work! I have to drive to work, and I have to drive home!
[she looks at the open fields around her]
Deer Woman: ...Where do they come from?
[she kneels down and checks the deer's pulse]
Deer Woman: He's dead.
[she walks back towards her car]
Deer Woman: And I love deer!
[she gets in her car and drives off]
The Straight Story Quotes
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Anthony 2022-03-27 09:01:06
Streeter's Story (The Straight Story), a road movie based on a true story, is the least Lynch one (followed by "The Elephant Man" based on the same story) -- and was filmed in "The Elephant Man" Between "Frightening Night" and "Mulholland Drive". Lynch's surrealist style is reduced to realistic subjects, such as "Monster Night Panic" slowing down the speed of the highway, and the comedy elements revealed are integrated into life. The old man driving the lawnmower on the road looked at the young and powerful riding team, the huge passing truck, the deer killed by the car, and the old man who was also a veteran. The journey was warm, interesting and touching. Farnsworth, who endured the pain, was nominated for an Oscar again (the previous one was nominated for the male supporting role in "Prancing Horse Mountain"), and one year later, he committed suicide with a gun. PS: Reminds me of the novel "A Person's Pilgrimage" a few years ago.
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Kayla 2022-03-26 09:01:06
I said to Sanmei before, "I can recognize Lynch's film by looking at the camera", but this film completely surprised me, almost completely without personal traces, the other side of magic, and the standard is not bad .
