Other Titles • Hard Times (1975) • Stahlharter Mann, Ein (1975) • The Streetfighter
Quotes from Hard Times (1975)
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Speed: Chaney, I'd like you to meet my old friend Poe. He'll fix up your cuts, bruises, things like that. Poe: I have two years of medical school to recommend me. Chaney: Two years don't make a doctor. Poe: During my third year, a small black cloud appeared on campus; I left under it. Speed: What he means is that he is a bona-fide hophead. Poe: I have a weakness for opium. Chaney: That's a hard habit to break. Poe: Some are born to fail, others have failure thrust upon them.
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Lucy Simpson: What does it feel like to knock somebody down? Chaney: It makes me feel a hell of a lot better than it does him. Lucy Simpson: That's a reason? Chaney: Hey, there's no reason about it. Just money.
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Speed: I suppose you've been down the long, hard road? Chaney: Who hasn't?
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Speed: Well, you know Chick, like old momma said, next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing.
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Poe: Steady on, Speed. These boys are not refined.
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Pettibon: This has come as quite a setback for us; it was too easy. Speed: Ain't nothin' in the rules about ?easy?, Mr. Pettibon. Chaney: [putting on his shirt] Anything wrong? Pettibon: What's wrong, Mr. Chaney, is that you're too good. You're a ringer, Mr. Chaney. Speed: Dammit, my man won fair and square; give us our money, goddammit! Poe: [noticing several Cajuns walking up behind Pettibon] Steady on, Speed. These boys are not refined. [notices one of the Cajuns has a pistol] Poe: Somebody always brings a gun. Speed: [being pulled toward the car by Poe and Gayleen] Oh, yeah! Well, the next time I come to this coonass place, I'm goin' to bring a gun! Pettibon: [laughing] You do that, Speed; just make sure it's a great big one. [to his men] Pettibon: That's how it's done.
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Speed: [sniffing] You know, Chick, no matter what you do, you'll always smell like fish.
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Gayleen Schoonover: [leaving the fight with the Cajuns] Come all this way to lose all of our money. Just breaks my heart. Speed: Breaks my butt is what it breaks! Chaney: Just drive around and look at the bayou a while. Then we'll talk to Pettibon about our money.
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Jim Henry: [speed is being held hostage by Gandil's thugs] If things don't work out, who gets to do the job on him? Card player: We take turns. Jim Henry: Uh-uh. This time, I get to do it. Speed: That's right; you ain't won one in a while, have you? [grins at Jim Henry] Speed: He really cleaned your clock, didn't he?
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Speed: Every town had somebody who thinks he's tough as a nickel steak; but, they all come to old Speed for the do-re-mi.
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Jim Henry: I want to have a long talk with anybody bettin' against me.
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Chick Gandil: There's no point in avoiding this thing, you know; it's going to happen. Street: He's right. Chaney: You want it that much? Street: I'm getting paid. Chaney: [turns away and goes back to his beer] Street: I can always reach over and start things right now. Chaney: [takes a swig of beer without looking at Street] Yeah, but you won't. Street: You don't think so? Chaney: [finishes his beer and walks past Street to leave] Chaney: You're not going to do it for free.
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Poe: Some are born to fail, others have it thrust upon them.
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Poe: [after the dispute with the Cajuns] A sorry spectacle, a poor example of Southern sportsmanship.
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Speed: [making a toast] To the best man I know. To the Napoleon of southern sports: me.
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