The Best Matt Quotes

Jed: [after the deaths of Aardvark and Colonel Tanner] It's kind of strange, isn't it? How the mountains pay us no attention at all. You laugh or you cry... The wind just keeps on blowing.
Matt: You're getting pretty low on feelings, aren't you?
Jed: I can't afford them.
Matt: Even if that had been me instead of Aardvark?

Jed: [at the execution of Daryl Bates and Stepan Gorsky] Do you want blindfolds?
Stepan: This violates the Geneva convention.
Jed: I never heard of it!
Stepan: Dogface! I show you how Soviet dies!
Robert: I've seen it before, pal.
Danny: [who is tied up in the distance, with the horses] This isn't happening! Jed, let him go! He was one of us!
Jed: Shut up, Danny! Shut up!
Robert: He told them where we were!
Jed: He did. Now get your rifles.
Matt: *No!*
Jed: WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Matt: *We're not doing it!*
Stepan: [to Daryl] Boy, say at me you are friend, so I will not die alone.
Matt: What's the difference, Jed?
Robert: I'll do it.
Matt: Shut up, Robert!
[to Jed]
Matt: *Tell me what's the difference between us and them!*
Jed: Because WE *LIVE* HERE!
[kills Stepan; Robert kills Daryl]

Matt: Why don't you make yourself useful?
Erica: You wash it! We're never doing your washing again! Me and her is as good as any of you!
Matt: So what's up your ass?
Erica: Shut up! Don't you ever say that again! Hear me? Say that again, I'll kill you! Hear me? I'll kill you.
Matt: So what did I do?
Toni: What you said was wrong.

Tom: Boys.
Matt: Daddy. Dad.
Tom: Don't talk. Don't say anything. Let me look at ya. I knew I was right. I knew it. You're alive. I was tough on both of you. I did things that made you, made you hate me sometimes. You understand now, don't you?
Jed: What happened, dad? Why are you here? What'd you do?
Tom: It doesn't matter. One way or another, for one reason or another, we're all gone. It's all gone. Remember. Remember when you used to go in the park and play, and I used to put you two on the swings? Both of you were so damn little.
Jed: I remember. I remember all of it.
Tom: Well, I won't be there to pick you up when you fall now. Both of you have to take care of each other now.
Matt: We'll never see you again, dad.
Tom: Yes you will. I don't want to hear that, Maddy.
Matt: What happened to mom, dad? Where is she?
Tom: She's not here. I don't know where they took her. You can't afford to be crying anymore now. I don't want either one of you to ever cry for me again. Don't ever do it. Not as long as you live.
Robert: Where's my dad, Mr. Eckert? Is he here?
Tom: I don't know, son. I don't know. You all get going. Get out before they find you.
Jed: Dad, I love you.
Tom: I know you do, son. I love you too.
[Tom, Jed, and Robert Leave]
Tom: Boys! Avenge Me! Avenge Me!

Matt: [after their flight from Calumet, Jed is fixing the radiator on his pickup-truck] Did you get it?
Jed: Yeah, I got it. Only thing is, we got one problem: we don't have any water.
Matt: How about pissing in it?
Jed: That's a good idea. Get up here.
[laughs]
Danny: How do you know it'll work?
Jed: How old are you, kid?
Danny: Fifteen. And the name's Danny, not "kid."
Jed: Well, when you grow up... then you'll know these things, Danny. Now get up here and piss in the radiator.

Matt: [after Toni and Robert are KIA, the Eckert Brothers plan a diversion while Danny and Erica cross the enemy lines] We're all that's left. Somebody's gotta live. Somebody's gotta make it. Me and Jed, we're all used up.
Erica: I'm never gonna forget... as long as I live.
Matt: Don't.
Danny: You're never gonna know who won.
Matt: Who WILL?

Jed: [the Wolverines discover that Daryl has been "bugged" by the Russo-Cubans] Daryl... Where is it? Where is it?
[Jed grabs Daryl, gets in Daryl's face and shouts]
Jed: GOD-DAMMIT, WHERE'S THE BUG?
Darryl: They made me swallow it.
Matt: Daryl, what have you done?
Darryl: [nearly in tears] I went into town... and got caught.
Jed: [shaking him and screeching with rage] YOU WENT AND GOT CAUGHT! WHY?
Darryl: [His voice breaks] You said we couldn't...
Robert: You told them where we were, didn't you? You told them!
Darryl: [sobbing] My father turned me in. Oh God, they do things you can't imagine.
Jed: [throws him down, growling with rage] AAAAGGHHH! You SON OF A BITCH!

Jed: My family would want me to stay alive. Your family would want you to stay alive. You think you're so smart, man, but you're just a bunch of scared kids.
Danny: So what do you think *you* are?
Jed: ...Alone, I guess.
Matt: [comes and stands with him] No, you're not.

Darryl: [Pouring a can of soup in the pot] That's the last of it... except for the olives.
Matt: We still got plenty of meat left.
Danny: Just stuff you shot.
Matt: So tell me, dork, where do you suppose hamburgers come from?
Danny: Nobody shoots them.
Darryl: We need food.