"Yah?" "Yah."--just about every character in the film, at one time or another
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"Oh--I just, I think I'm gonna barf."--Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand)
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"Geez, you okay, Margie?"--Lou (Bruce Bohne)
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"I'm fine--it's just morning sickness....Well, that passed."--Marge
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"Yah?"--Lou
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"Yah. Now I'm hungry again."--Marge
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"Yah, that's a good one."--Lou
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"Okay, so we got a trooper pulls someone over, we got a shooting, these folks drive
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by, there's a high-speed pursuit, ends here, and then this execution-type deal."--Marge
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Jerry Lundegaard: Now we had a deal. A deal's a deal. Carl Showalter: Is it, Jerry? Why don't you ask those three poor souls in Brainerd if a deal's a deal. Go ahead, ask them! Jerry Lundegaard: The heck do ya mean? Carl Showalter: [mimicking] "The heckya mean?"
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Carl Showalter: You know, it's proven that second-hand smoke is, uh, carcin-... uh, you know, cancer related.
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Gaer Grimsrud: You are a smooth smoothie, you know.
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Gaer Grimsrud: I need unguent.
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[Grimsrud sees Carl's shot-up face] Carl Showalter: You should see the other guy!
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Carl Showalter: What kind of trouble are you in, Jerry? Jerry Lundegaard: Well, that's, that's, I'm not gonna go inta, inta - see, I just need money.
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Jerry Lundegaard: Well, heck, if you wanna play games here! I'm workin' with ya on this thing, but I... Okay, I'll do a damned lot count! Marge Gunderson: Sir? Right now? Jerry Lundegaard: Sure right now! You're darned tootin'!
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Carl Showalter: We've been waiting here an hour. He's peed three times already.
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Carl Showalter: I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry. Jerry Lundegaard: Okay. Carl Showalter: I'm not gonna sit here and debate.
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Carl Showalter: Oh, fuck it, I don't have to talk either, man! See how you like it. Just total fuckin' silence. Two can play at that game, smart guy. We'll just see how you like it. Total silence.
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Marge Gunderson: Ah, hon, ya got Arby's all over me.
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Carl Showalter: I don't want more fuckin' pancakes, man. I want to go somewhere I can get a shot and a beer, and a steak, maybe. Hey, I know this place outside Brainerd where we can get laid. Gaer Grimsrud: Look, I'm fucking hungry now, you know.
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Carl Showalter: O.K., we'll go get some fucking pancakes and then get laid.
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[Marge is pregnant] Lou: You alright there, Margie? Marge Gunderson: Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf... Well, that passed. Now I'm hungry again.
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Marge Gunderson: I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.
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[Carl sees Jean's body on the floor] Carl Showalter: The fuck happened to her? Gaear Grimsrud: Eh, she started shrieking, you know.
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Stan Grossman: But you're sayin'... what are ya sayin'?
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Mike Yanagita: So, uh, you married old Norm son-of-a-Gunderson?
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Marge Gunderson: OK, so we got a trooper pulls someone over, we got a shooting, these folks drive by, there's a high-speed pursuit, ends here and then this execution-type deal.
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Carl Showalter: Just keep it still back there lady or we're going to have to, you know, shoot you.
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Marge Gunderson: Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plate so he went and changed his name to J3L2404? Lou: Yah, that's a good one.
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Marge Gunderson: You have no call to get snippy with me; I'm just trying to do my job here.
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Mr. Mohra: So, I'm tendin' bar there at Ecklund and Swedlin's last Tuesday and this little guy's drinkin' and he says, "So where can a guy find some action? I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake." And I says, "What kinda action?" and he says, "Woman action, what do I look like?" And I says, "Well, what do I look like, I don't arrange that kinda thing," and he says, "I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake," and I says, "Well, this ain't that kinda place." Officer Olson: Uh-huh. Mr. Mohra: So he says, "So I get it, so you think I'm some kinda jerk for askin'," only he doesn't use the word jerk. Officer Olson: I understand. Mr. Mohra: And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who thought he was a jerk was dead now. So I don't say nothin' and he says, "What do ya think about that?" So I says, "Well, that don't sound like too good a deal for him then." Officer Olson: Ya got that right. Mr. Mohra: And he says, "Yah, that guy's dead and I don't mean of old age." And then he says, "Geez, I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake." Officer Olson: White Bear Lake? Mr. Mohra: Well, Ecklund & Swedlin's, that's closer ta Moose Lake, so I made that assumption. Officer Olson: Oh sure. Mr. Mohra: So, ya know, he's drinkin', so I don't think a whole great deal of it, but Mrs. Mohra heard about the homicides down here and she thought I should call it in, so I called it in. End o' story. Officer Olson: What'd this guy look like anyway? Mr. Mohra: Oh, he was a little guy. Kinda funny lookin'. Officer Olson: Uh-huh. In what way? Mr. Mohra: Oh, just in a general kinda way.
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Gaer Grimsrud: We split the car. Carl Showalter: How the fuck do you split a car, you dummy? With a fucking chainsaw?
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Marge Gunderson: And I guess that was your accomplice in the woodchipper.
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Marge Gunderson: There's more to life than a little money, ya know. Don'tcha know that? And here ya are. And it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it.
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Norm Gunderson: I love you, Margie. Marge Gunderson: I love you, Norm.
[Marge is interviewing the two hookers whose clients were the two suspects] Hooker No. 1: Well, the little guy was kinda funny-lookin'. Marge Gunderson: In what way? Hooker No. 1: I dunno, just funny-lookin'. Marge Gunderson: Can you be any more specific? Hooker No. 1: I couldn't really say. He wasn't circumcised. Marge Gunderson: Was he funny lookin' apart from that? Hooker No. 1: Yah... Marge Gunderson: So, you were havin' sex with the little fellow then. Hooker No. 1: Uh huh...
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[Grimsrud won't give Carl the car] Carl Showalter: No fuckin' way! You fuckin' notice this? I got fuckin' shot in the face! I went and got the fuckin' money! I got shot pickin' it up! I've been up for 36 fuckin' hours! I'm takin' that fuckin' car! That fucker's mine!
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Carl Showalter: Whoa Daddy.
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Marge Gunderson: Oh for pete's sake, he's fleeing the interview! He's fleeing the interview!
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Marge Gunderson: Well I'm sorry sir! Jerry Lundegaard: [storming off to do a lot count] Aw, what the Christ!
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[as Shep angrily approaches Carl] Carl Showalter: You stay away from me, man! Hey, smoke a fuckin' peace pipe!
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Carl Showalter: You ever been to Minneapolis? Gaear Grimsrud: Nope. Carl Showalter: Would it... kill you to say something? Gaear Grimsrud: I did. Carl Showalter: "No." That's the first thing you've said in the last four hours. That's, a fountain of conversation there, buddy. That's a geyser.
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[Jean is making noise in the back of the car] Gaear Grimsrud: Shut the fuck up! Or I'll throw you back in the trunk, you know? Carl Showalter: Jesus, that's more than I've heard you say all week.
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Carl Showalter: [banging on the TV] Come on, plug me into the ozone baby, come on!
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Marge Gunderson: Mind if I sit down? I'm carrying quite a load here.
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Carl Showalter: [irate] Alright Jerry, I'm through fucking around. You got the fucking money? Jerry Lundegaard: Yeah, I got the money, but... Carl Showalter: Don't you fucking fuck me Jerry. I want you to get this money to the Dayton Radisson, top level, in half in hour, Jerry, we wrap this thing up. Jerry Lundegaard: Yeah, but... Carl Showalter: Hey, you're there in 30 minutes Jerry or I find you Jerry and I shoot you and I shoot your fucking wife and I shoot all your fucking children and I shoot them all in the back of their little fucking heads, you got it? Jerry Lundegaard: Now you stay away from Scotty now. Carl Showalter: Got it?
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Marge Gunderson: So, Mike, should we get together another time? Mike Yanagita: No! [sobs] Mike Yanagita: I'm sorry, I... I shouldn't have done this. I shouldn't have done this, I shouldn't have... I thought we'd have a really terrific time. Marge Gunderson: It's OK, Mike. Mike Yanagita: You were such a super lady... and I'm, I'm so lonely. [sobs]
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Shep Proudfoot: [beating Carl Showalter violently] Fucking little weasel! Fuck you! You fucking motherfucker son of a bitch Jesus Christ you fucking shitbag motherfucker!
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