Thieves Like Us (1974)

Keith Carradine: Bowie

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Quotes 

• Bowie : I come from the Ozarks. All we grow there is rocks and tomatoes.

• Bowie : Miss Keechie, do you know what the Mississippi state animal is?

  Keechie : What?

  Bowie : You know, the state animal.

  Keechie : I don't know. A deer, maybe?

  Bowie : No, sir! It's a squashed dog in the road!

• Bowie : I'll give you the straight of it, Keechie. I ain't sorry. I ain't sorry for anything I ever did in this world. Only regret I got is that I didn't get 100,000 instead of 19. And that I never pitched pro ball.

• Bowie : You just lay there and rest. I'll be back here lickety-split.

• Bowie : I sure wish them boys would get back here. I'm gonna go dingbatty waiting.

• Bowie : I think you got old T-Dub going, Lula.

  Lula : Hey, it don't take much. He's like an octopus. Eight hands going all at once, slimy and grimy.

• Bowie : Keechie-Keechie-koo.

  Keechie : Bowie-Bowie-boo.

• Bowie : Keechie? You awake? You feel tired?

  Keechie : I don't know. Are you?

  Bowie : I don't know, either. Everybody always said you were supposed to be tired.

  Keechie : Well, we took a nap.

  Bowie : I don't feel tired.

  Keechie : Neither do I.

  Bowie : You wanna do it again?

  Keechie : You suppose we should?

  Bowie : You're not tired, are you?

  Keechie : No, but you're not supposed to do it too often.

  Bowie : I never heard about that. That part's okay. You sure you're not tired?

  Keechie : No, Bowie, I'm not tired.

  Bowie : Positive? I'm tired, Keechie.

  Keechie : Oh, you dirty...

• Bowie : You're a little soldier, Keechie. You're a little solider from your toenails right up to your hair. But you can't be getting mixed up with me.

  Keechie : I already am mixed up with you.

• Bowie : Chicamaw was telling me about that lawyer friend of his in Mexico. Hawkins. He didn't believe much in that heaven or hell stuff. Said the only way a man lived on was through his children.

  Keechie : Is that why you'd like to have children?

  Bowie : I never said nothing about having children.

• Keechie : [taking a bath]  Stop peeking!

  Bowie : No. I won't quit peeking. I'll peek all I want to. - - Hairy little thing, aren't you?

  Keechie : You think I should shave?

  Bowie : No. I like it. Don't you ever shave.

• Keechie : Are you gonna wash your feet tonight?

  Bowie : Not tonight, honey. I washed them last night.