The Best Everett McGill Quotes

Big: I'm living my life, Norma. I just don't like it much.

Ed: Freeze! Over by the trap door, old buddy.
James: Is this where you put your old buddy Felix?
Ed: Not me. Chalk that one up to Sanchez and Krest.

Stilgar: You have strength. You shall be known as Usul - which is the strength of the base of the pillar. This is your secret name in our troop. But, you must choose the name of manhood, which we will call you openly.
Paul: What do you call the mouse shadow in the second moon?
Stilgar: We call that one Muad'Dib.
Paul: Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?
Stilgar: You are Paul Muad'Dib!

Paul: Stilgar, do we have wormsign?
Stilgar: Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen.

[Leiter sees the traitor cop]
Felix: Killifer?
Ed: Sorry, ol' buddy, but two mil's a helluva chunk o' dough.

Mike: Donna, you get to the sheriff's right now.
[He drives off, tires squealing]
Donna: Boy, I sure know how to pick 'em, huh.
Nadine: [Nadine opens the front door of her house and yells] Ed! You waiting for those drapes to hang themselves?
Big: Yo, okay!
[Nadine goes inside, slamming the door]
Big: Well, I know how to pick them too.

Franz: I want you to know this is nothing personal. It's purely business.
Felix: Killifer?
Ed: Sorry, old buddy, but two mil is a hell of a chunk of dough.
Felix: [Felix is being lowered into a pool full of sharks] Killing me won't stop anything, Sanchez!
Felix: There are worse things than dying, hombre.
Felix: Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! See you in hell!
Franz: [laughs] No. Today is the first day of the rest of your life!
Felix: Noooo!

[Killifer, who took the bribe, is dangling on a rope over shark-infested water]
Ed: There's $2 million in that suitcase. I'll split it with you.
James: [menacingly] You earned it. You keep it, Old Buddy!
[Throws the case at him, knocking him into the water]
Sharkey: God, what a terrible waste.
[Bond glares at Sharkey]
Sharkey: Of money.
[Bond stops glaring]

Big: It's not the first time, it won't be the last, but I'm in that doghouse again.

Blackie: Well Fred, what's your line?
Big: [undercover] Own a gas station.
[Cooper nudges Ed in his side]
Big: I'm an oral surgeon.
Blackie: Well, I got a Chevy parked out back with a serious root-canal problem. Want to take a look?