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The Last Picture Show Quotes

“[Telephone conversation]
Duane Jackson: Hi Jacy, it's Duane.

Jacy Farrow: What's on your feeble mind, Duane?”
— Duane Jackson, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: feeble
“I guess if it wasn't for Sam, I'd have missed it, whatever it is. I'd have been one of them amity types that thinks that playin' bridge is about the best thing that life has to offer.”
— Lois Farrow, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Bridge
“Never you mind, honey. Never you mind.”
— Ruth Popper, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: never mind
“[to his team taking laps] If you all didn't jack off too much, maybe you'd stay in shape.”
— Coach Popper, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: masturbation
“Nothin's really been right since Sam the Lion died.”
— Sonny Crawford, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Death
“One thing I know for sure. A person can't sneeze in this town without somebody offering them a handkerchief.”
— Genevieve, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Nosy, Neighbors
“Charlene Duggs: [In a snit over breaking up] Now don't go tellin' all the boys how hot I was.

Sonny Crawford: [Sadly] You wasn't that hot.”
— Charlene Duggs, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Breakups, Hot, insults
“Y'see? You shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it and it's lost completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back.”
— Ruth Popper, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Unrequited Love
“I'll see you in a year or two if I don't get shot.”
— Duane Jackson, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: War, Draft
“[to Lester Marlow] Thank God, I'm glad I weren't on fire—I would've burned to death before you got one button undone.”
— Jacy Farrow, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Stripping, romantic ineptitude
“Jacy Farrow: Well you married Daddy when he was poor and he got rich, didn't he?

Lois Farrow: Scared your daddy into getting rich, beautiful.

Jacy Farrow: Well if Daddy could do it, Duane could, too.

Lois Farrow: Not married to you. You're not scary enough.”
— Jacy Farrow, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Marriage, rich, Beautifui, scary
“You boys can get on out of here, I don't want to have no more to do with you. Scarin' a poor, unfortunate creature like Billy just so's you could have a few laughs—I've been around that trashy behavior all my life, I'm gettin' tired of puttin' up with it. Now you can stay out of this pool hall, out of my cafe, and my picture show too—I don't want no more of your business.”
— Sam the Lion, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: abuse of the disabled, trashy behavior
“[to Genevieve] Chicken fry me a steak and try to use meat this time!”
— Sam the Lion, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: chicken-fried steak
“If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old.”
— Sam the Lion, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: crazy, Getting Old, True Love
“If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old.”
— Sam the Lion, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: crazy, romance, Getting Old, Lost Love
“Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.”
— Larry Mcmurtry, The Last Picture Show
Tagged: Heartbreak, Heartbroken
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