No Country for Old Men (2007)

Kelly Macdonald: Carla Jean Moss

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Quotes 

• Llewelyn Moss : If I don't come back, tell mother I love her.

  Carla Jean Moss : Your mother's dead, Llewelyn.

  Llewelyn Moss : Well then I'll tell her myself.

• Carla Jean Moss : You don't have to do this.

  Anton Chigurh : [smiles]  People always say the same thing.

  Carla Jean Moss : What do they say?

  Anton Chigurh : They say, "You don't have to do this."

  Carla Jean Moss : You don't.

  Anton Chigurh : Okay.

  [Chigurh flips a coin and covers it with his hand] 

  Anton Chigurh : This is the best I can do. Call it.

  Carla Jean Moss : I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.

  Anton Chigurh : Call it.

  Carla Jean Moss : No. I ain't gonna call it.

  Anton Chigurh : Call it.

  Carla Jean Moss : The coin don't have no say. It's just you.

  Anton Chigurh : Well, I got here the same way the coin did.

• Ed Tom Bell : Carla Jean, thank you for coming.

  Carla Jean Moss : Don't know why I did. I told you, I don't know where he is.

  Ed Tom Bell : You hadn't heard from him?

  Carla Jean Moss : No, I ain't.

  Ed Tom Bell : Nuthin'?

  Carla Jean Moss : Not word one.

  Ed Tom Bell : Would you tell me if you had?

  Carla Jean Moss : Well, I don't know. He don't need any trouble from you.

  Ed Tom Bell : It ain't me he's in trouble with.

  Carla Jean Moss : Who's he in trouble with then?

  Ed Tom Bell : Some pretty bad people. These people will kill him, Carla Jean. They won't quit.

  Carla Jean Moss : He won't neither. He never has. He can take all comers.

  Ed Tom Bell : [Ed Tom sighs heavily]  You know Charlie Walser's, got that place out east of Sanderson? Well, you know how they used to slaughter beeves, hit 'em right there with a maul, truss 'em up and slit their throats? Here, ol' Charlie's got one all trussed up, all set to drain him and the beef comes to, starts thrashing around. Six hundred pounds of very pissed-off livestock. If you'll excuse the... Well... Charlie grabs the gun there, shoot the damn thing in the head, but with all the swingin' and the thrashin', it's a glance-shot, ricochets around, comes back and hits Charlie in the shoulder. You go see Charlie, he still can't pick up his right hand for his hat... The point bein', that even in the contest between man and steer, the issue is not certain.

• Carla Jean Moss : I got a bad feeling, Llewelyn.

  Llewelyn Moss : Well I got a good feeling, so that should even out.

• Carla Jean Moss : Where'd you get the pistol?

  Llewelyn Moss : At the gettin' place.

  Carla Jean Moss : Did you buy that gun?

  Llewelyn Moss : No. I found it.

  Carla Jean Moss : Llewelyn!

  Llewelyn Moss : What? Quit hollerin'.

  Carla Jean Moss : What'd you give for that thing?

  Llewelyn Moss : You don't need to know everything, Carla Jean.

  Carla Jean Moss : I need to know that.

  Llewelyn Moss : You keep runnin' that mouth I'm gonna' take you in the back and screw ya'.

  Carla Jean Moss : Big talk.

  Llewelyn Moss : Keep it up.

  Carla Jean Moss : Fine. I don't wanna' know. I don't even wanna' know where you been all day.

  Llewelyn Moss : That'll work.

• Carla Jean Moss : Llewelyn?

  Llewelyn Moss : Yeah?

  Carla Jean Moss : What are you doing, baby?

  Llewelyn Moss : I'm going out.

  Carla Jean Moss : Going where?

  Llewelyn Moss : There's something I forgot to do, but I'll be back.

  Carla Jean Moss : And what are you going to do?

  Llewelyn Moss : I'm fixin' to do something dumber than hell, but I'm going anyways.

• Carla Jean Moss : Sheriff, was that a true story about Charlie Walser?

  Ed Tom Bell : Who's Charlie Walser? Oh! Well... uh... a true story? I couldn't swear to every detail but it's certainly true that it is a story.

• Carla Jean Moss : What's in the satchel?

  Llewelyn Moss : It's full of money.

  Carla Jean Moss : [sarcastically]  Yeah, that'll be the day.

• Carla Jean's Mother : And I always seen this is what it would come to. Three years ago I pre-visioned it.

  Carla Jean Moss : It ain't even three years we been married.

  Carla Jean's Mother : Three years ago I said them very words. No and Good.

  Cabbie at Bus Station : Yes, ma'am.

  Carla Jean's Mother : Now here we are. Ninety degree heat. I got the cancer. And look at this. Not even a home to go to.

  Cabbie at Bus Station : Yes, ma'am.

  Carla Jean's Mother : We're goin' to El Paso Texas. You know how many people I know in El Paso, Texas?

  Cabbie at Bus Station : No, ma'am.

  Carla Jean's Mother : [She holds up thumb and forefinger curled to make an O]  That's how many. Ninety degree heat.

• Ed Tom Bell : When Llewelyn calls, just tell him I can make him safe. 'Course, they slaughter steers a lot different these days. Use a air gun. Shoots out a little rod about that far under the brain. Sucks right back in. Animal never knows what hit him.

  Carla Jean Moss : Why are you telling me that, Sheriff?

  Ed Tom Bell : I don't know... my mind wanders.

• Carla Jean Moss : [the cab is stopped outside the depot. Carla Jean and her mother and the driver are at the trunk struggling over bags]  I got it, Mama.

  Carla Jean's Mother : I didn't see my Prednisone.

  Carla Jean Moss : I put it in, Mama.

  Carla Jean's Mother : Well, I didn't see it.

  Carla Jean Moss : Well, I put it in. That one. You just set there. I'll get tickets and a cart for the bags.

  Well Dressed Mexican : [as Carla Jean goes to the station a man emerges from a car pulled up behind. He is a well-dressed Mexican of early middle age]  Do you need help with the bags, madam?

  Carla Jean's Mother : Well, thank God there's one gentleman left in West Texas. Yes, thank you. I am old and I am not well.

  Well Dressed Mexican : Which bus are you taking?

  Carla Jean's Mother : We're going to El Paso don't ask me why. Discombobulated by a no-account son-in-law. Thank you. You don't often see a Mexican in a suit.

  Well Dressed Mexican : You go to El Paso? I know it. Where are you staying?

• Carla Jean Moss : I ain't got the money. What little I had is long gone, and there's bills aplenty to pay yet. I buried my mother today. Ain't pay for that neither.

  Anton Chigurh : I wouldn't worry about it.

  Carla Jean Moss : I need to sit down.

• Llewelyn Moss : Well, you should be used to that.

  Carla Jean Moss : I'm used to lots of things. I work at Wal-Mart.

• Carla Jean Moss : Don't fall down apologizing.

  Llewelyn Moss : Oh, baby, things happen. Come on, I can't take them back.

• Carla Jean Moss : Mama's gonna raise hell. She's just gonna cuss you up and down.

  Llewelyn Moss : Well, you should be used to that.

  Carla Jean Moss : I'm used to lots of things. I work at Wal-Mart.

  Llewelyn Moss : Not anymore, Carla Jean. You are retired.