Urban Cowboy (1980)

Lucky Mosley: Plant Supervisor

Quotes 

• Plant Supervisor : [Bud is interviewing for a job at the oil refinery where Uncle Bob works. His application is being reviewed]  Bud Davis, huh?

  Bud : [nervous]  My, my full name is Buford Uwen Davis, but nobody calls me Buford 'cept my Grandmother, and she's half Indian. My initials are B.U.D., it spells Bud.

  Plant Supervisor : [mildly annoyed]  I can spell, boy.

  [looks at application more closely] 

  Plant Supervisor : What pipeline? There ain't no pipeline in Spur!

  Bud : Yes there is. It came in last Spring. I was workin' on insulatin' it. Then Uncle Bob said you was hiring so I come down here.

  Plant Supervisor : Most of our insulatin' work we contract out. But I can start you out as a general helper, a laborer, a gopher. You know what a gopher is, boy?

  Bud : Well, I suppose it means you go for things.

  [pause] 

  Bud : Or it could mean you're an animal...

  Plant Supervisor : Yeah, well around here they're on the same level. Start you off right at the bottom, work up.

  [Looks at Bud intensely] 

  Plant Supervisor : But I'm gonna tell you one thing. You're gettin' this job because of your Uncle Bob. He's been here a long time and he's a damn good man.

  [pause] 

  Plant Supervisor : And I'm gonna tell you one thing more. You're gonna have to lose that beard. It's regulations, any kind of a fresh-air mask...