Bound for Glory (1976)

David Clennon: Carl - Man in Gas Station

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Hank - Man in Gas Station : ['California Water Tastes Like Cherry Wine' plays in the background']  What's the matter?

  Carl - Man in Gas Station : Hey, Wood.

  Woody Guthrie : Yeah.

  Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : Cherry wine.

  Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : [Jenkins turns off the record player]  Goddamit, Woody. I got half a notion to pull up stakes and hit the road for California.

  Carl - Man in Gas Station : I been thinking about down the Gulf of Mexico... or the Rio Grande valley. Just somewheres I can grow some fruit, peaches. Them Indian blood peaches with that red meat.

  Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : Shit fire, Carl! Why down there? In California you just plop a seed into the ground, you find a sprout the very next day.

  Hank - Man in Gas Station : Well, it seems I sure gotta do something. I just don't know what's going to happen to everybody around here.

  Woody Guthrie : You folks... sure are depressing.

• Collister - Gas Station Customer : You boys got any news?

  Old Man Jenkins - Gas Station Owner : Ain't nothin' interesting to tell about, except people are moving out of these parts.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : My name's Collister, and I've been running all over this here state to them fortune tellers; ain't one of them told me a damn thing. Someone tell me something worth listening to, and I'll pay 'em a dollar, good American money.

  Woody Guthrie : It's been pretty dusty around here.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : That ain't worth nothing,

  Carl - Man in Gas Station : Hell, Woody, that ain't worth nothing, for sure.

  Woody Guthrie : Well... I ain't much for fortune-telling. You're a inside man, got a big job with the oil refinery.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : How'd you know that?

  Woody Guthrie : Well... ain't nobody else got money to waste on fortune tellers, sody pop.

  [Jenkins chuckles] 

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : Keep going,

  Woody Guthrie : Well, them two creases in between your eyebrows... tell me... you're a man who probably takes his work serious, always looking for a way to do things better.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : You got 50 cents.

  [Hank whistles] 

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : Keep talking,

  Woody Guthrie : Oh, you probably got some kinda idea, an invention of some kind, big company wants to buy you out.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : You got a paper dollar if you can tell me when to do it.

  Woody Guthrie : [Woody chuckles]  Hell, I ain't no mind reader.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : [Woody starts playing his guitar]  Hmm. You're the only one I ever met that didn't claim to know everything in the whole world. What's your name?

  Woody Guthrie : Woody. Woody Guthrie.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : Well Guthrie, I'll spread the word. Worth every penny.

  [Collister puts the money inside Woody's guitar] 

  Woody Guthrie : Thank you kindly.

  Collister - Gas Station Customer : [to Jenkins]  There you are, Pop, and there's a nickel for the Coke, dollar for the gas.