Lone Star (1996)

Chris Cooper: Sam

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• Sheriff Sam Deeds : Well, I'm working on a few things. I'm going over to the other side.

  Ray : Republicans?

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : No, Mexico.

• Cody : To run a successful civilization, you have got to have your lines of demarcation: between right 'n' wrong, between this'n 'n' that'n. Your daddy understood that. He was uh what-you-call-it... the referee of this damn menudo we got down here. He understood how most folks don't want their salt and sugar in the same jar.

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : Boy, you mix drinks as bad as you mix metaphors, you'd be out of a job.

• Sheriff Sam Deeds : Mrs. Bledsoe?

  Minnie Bledsoe : That's me.

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : I'm Sheriff Deeds.

  Minnie Bledsoe : Sheriff Deeds is dead, honey. You just Sheriff Junior.

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : Yeah, that's the story of my life.

• Bartender : I'm as liberal as the next guy.

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : If the next guy is a redneck.

• Sheriff Sam Deeds : He ever accept cash for a favor?

  Otis Payne : I don't recall a prisoner ever died in your daddy's custody. I don't recall a man in this county - black, white, Mexican - who'd hesitate for a minute to call on Buddy Deeds to solve a problem. More than that, I wouldn't care to say.

• Sheriff Sam Deeds : I suppose Hollis told you. We found Charlie Wade.

  Otis Payne : Is that right? Start digging holes in this county, no telling what'll come up.

• Sheriff Sam Deeds : You oughta put up a banner: "Frontera, Texas: gateway to inexpensive pussy."

• Sheriff Sam Deeds : No telling yet if there's been a crime, but this country's seen a fair amount of disagreements over the years.

• Sheriff Sam Deeds : I'm just a jailer. I run a 60-room hotel with bars on the windows.

• Mayor Hollis Pogue : Word gets out, and people are gonna think Buddy done it.

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : Buddy's a goddamned legend, he can handle it.

• [In the middle of nowhere] 

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : Great place for a business.

  Wesley Birdsong : Do you see much competiton around?

• Chucho Montoya : You're the sheriff of Rio County, right? Un jefe mui respectado.

  [drawing a line in the sand] 

  Chucho Montoya : Step across this line. You're not the sheriff of nothing anymore, just some tejano with a lot of questions I don't have to answer. A bird flying south, you think he sees this line? Rattlesnake? Javelina? Whatever you got. You think halfway across that line they start thinking different? Why should a man?

  Sheriff Sam Deeds : Your government's always been pretty happy to have that line, the question's just been where to draw it.

  Chucho Montoya : My government can go fuck itself, and so can yours! I'm talking about people here. Men.

• Sheriff Sam Deeds : If I met you for the first time today, I'd still want to be with you.