15+ Best Bob Rafelson Quotes

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It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker asshole lives in a trailer park compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

trailer park Cracker poor white stereotypes asshole puke The Good Life

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[out of his car during a traffic jam, yelling at other motorists] Ants! Why don't we all line up like a goddamned bunch of ants! Its the most beautiful part of the day!

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Ants Goddamned Conformity

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It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker asshole lives in a trailer park compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Cracker asshole Anti-White trailer park puke

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I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Drifter

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Palm Apodaca: Fantastic that you could figure that all out and lie that down on her so you could come up with a way to get your toast. Fantastic!

Bobby: Yeah, well, I didn't get it, did I?

Palm Apodaca: No, but it was very clever. I would have just punched her out.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

Toast Plotting Violence

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You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something—how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?

— Catherine Van Oost (Susan Anspach), Five Easy Pieces

Self-Respect Love Family Solipsism

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Bobby: What are you doing screwing around with all this crap?

Catherine: I do not find your language very charming.

Bobby: It isn't. It's direct.

Catherine: I'd like you to leave so that I can take a bath. Is that direct?

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

direct screwing around Crap Direct Action charming

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Disposal. What's that but more crap? I've never seen such crap.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

Crap ocd neat freak

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People. Animals are not like that. They're always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm... pigeons? Well, he's always picking on himself and his friends. They're always picking bugs out of their hair all the time. Monkeys, too. Except they do something out in the open that I don't go for.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

cleanliness ocd Pigeons monkeys

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Catherine: [after hearing Robert play the piano] That was beautiful, Robert, I'm surprised.

Bobby: Thank you.

Catherine: I was really very moved by... What's wrong?

Bobby: Nothing. It's just... I picked the easiest piece that I could think of. I first played it when I was eight years old, and I played it better then.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

half-hearted Underachiever

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Bobby: I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee and wheat toast.

Waitress: [points at his menu] No substitutions.

Bobby: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?

Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two, a plain omelette, it comes with cottage fries and rolls.

Bobby: Yeah, I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want.

Waitress: Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind.

Bobby: Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast.

Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast. I'll give you an English muffin or a coffee roll.

Bobby: What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you?

Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?

Palm Apodaca: Hey, Mac...

Bobby: Shut up. [to the waitress] You've got bread and a toaster of some kind?

Waitress: I don't make the rules.

Bobby: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a cup of coffee.

Waitress: A number two, a chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, and the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?

Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a cheque for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.

Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?

Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.

[Palm Apodaca sniggers]

Waitress: [points at a sign behind her] You see that sign, sir? Yes, you'll all have to leave! I'm not taking any more of your smartness and sarcasm!

Bobby: You see this sign?

[he sweeps all the glasses off the table onto the floor]

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Restaurants Rules ordering omelette Toast

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Palm Apodaca: You know, I read where they, uh, invented this car that runs on, ummm... that runs on, ummm... when you boil water?

Terry: Steam.

Palm Apodaca: Right, steam. A car that you could ride around in and not cause a stink. But do you know they will not even let us have it? Can you believe it? Why? Man! He likes to create a stink! I mean, I've seen filth that you wouldn't believe. Ugh! What a stink! I don't even want to talk about it.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

steam engines filth ocd neat freak

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Bobby: Where are you goin'?

Palm Apodaca: Alaska.

Bobby: Alaska. What are you: on vacation?

Terry: She wants to live there 'cause it's cleaner.

Bobby: Cleaner. Cleaner than what?

Palm Apodaca: You don't have to tell everybody about it. Pretty soon they'll all go there and it won't be so clean.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Alaska cleanliness neat freak

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Palm Apodaca: Hey, follow that truck. They know the best places to stop.

Rayette: That's an old maid's tale.

Palm Apodaca: Bullshit! Truck drivers are the only ones that know the best places to stop on the road.

Rayette: Salesmen and cops are the ones. If you'd ever waitressed, honey, you'd know that.

Palm Apodaca: Don't call me honey, Mac.

Rayette: Don't call me Mac, honey.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

truck stops salesmen Cops mac Honey

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[finally talking with his paralyzed father] I don't know if you'd be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, I mean... Most of it doesn't add up to much that I could relate as a way of life that you'd approve of... I'd like to be able to tell you why, but I don't really... I mean, I move around a lot because things tend to get bad when I stay. And I'm looking... for auspicious beginnings, I guess... I'm trying to, you know, imagine your half of this conversation... My feeling is, that if you could talk, we probably wouldn't be talking. That's pretty much how it got to be before... I left... Are you all right? I don't know what to say.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Confession Reconciliation

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Rayette: You love me, Bobby?

Bobby: What do you think? [they kiss]

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker asshole lives in a trailer park compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

[out of his car during a traffic jam, yelling at other motorists] Ants! Why don't we all line up like a goddamned bunch of ants! Its the most beautiful part of the day!

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker asshole lives in a trailer park compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

I move around a lot, not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Palm Apodaca: Fantastic that you could figure that all out and lie that down on her so you could come up with a way to get your toast. Fantastic!

Bobby: Yeah, well, I didn't get it, did I?

Palm Apodaca: No, but it was very clever. I would have just punched her out.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something—how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?

— Catherine Van Oost (Susan Anspach), Five Easy Pieces

Bobby: What are you doing screwing around with all this crap?

Catherine: I do not find your language very charming.

Bobby: It isn't. It's direct.

Catherine: I'd like you to leave so that I can take a bath. Is that direct?

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

Disposal. What's that but more crap? I've never seen such crap.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

People. Animals are not like that. They're always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm... pigeons? Well, he's always picking on himself and his friends. They're always picking bugs out of their hair all the time. Monkeys, too. Except they do something out in the open that I don't go for.

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

Bobby: Where are you goin'?

Palm Apodaca: Alaska.

Bobby: Alaska. What are you: on vacation?

Terry: She wants to live there 'cause it's cleaner.

Bobby: Cleaner. Cleaner than what?

Palm Apodaca: You don't have to tell everybody about it. Pretty soon they'll all go there and it won't be so clean.

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

— Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes), Five Easy Pieces

— Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson), Five Easy Pieces

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