Deliverance (1972)

Ned Beatty: Bobby

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• Bobby : Mister, I love the way you wear that hat.

  Old man : [after taking off his hat and examining it]  You don't know nothin'.

• Sherrif Bullard : Don't ever do nothin' like this again. Don't come back up here.

  Bobby : You don't have to worry about that, Sheriff.

• Bobby : We beat it, didn't we? Didn't we beat that?

  Lewis : You don't beat it. You don't beat this river...

• Mountain Man : I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!

  Bobby : Weee!

  Mountain Man : Weeeeeeee!

  Bobby : Weee!

• [Ed just killed a man believed to be the second rapist] 

  Bobby : That's him? I mean... he wasn't just some guy out hunting, was it?

  Ed : [shouts]  You tell me!

• Bobby : I had my first wet dream in a sleepin' bag.

  Ed : How was it?

  Bobby : Great.

  [pause] 

  Bobby : There's no repeatin' it.

• Mountain Man : Now let's you just drop them pants.

  Bobby : Drop?

  Mountain Man : Take 'em right off.

  Bobby : I... I mean, what's this all about?

  Toothless Man : Don't say nothin' just do it.

  Mountain Man : Just drop 'em, boy!

• Bobby : [indicating a junk car by a rural gas station]  That's my '51 Dodge. No, that's my car! That's my car! Whooee! All my youth and passion... spent in that back seat. It's all gone, you see? It's all gone - rust and dust.

• Bobby : [Old lady is describing a cucumber she'd grown and asks the other guests to guess how big it was]  Tell me, how big?

  Old lady at Biddiford's : Twelve and a half inches long. And I measured it around and it was ten and a half around. That was the darnedest lookin' cucumber you ever did see!

• [first lines] 

  Lewis : You w- you wanna... you wanna talk about the vanishing wilderness?

  Bobby : Lewis, listen - what are you so anxious about this?

  Lewis : Because they're buildin' a dam across the Cahulawassee River; they're gonna flood a whole valley, Bobby, that's why. Dammit, they're drownin' a river; they're drownin' a river, man.

• Bobby : Lewis, is this how you get your rocks off?

• Bobby : [about Drew]  I really didn't know him.

• Lewis : This is the one! There she is.

  [Lewis pushes aside tree branches and we see the river for the first time] 

  Ed : Looks good. Looks good.

  Lewis : [mournfully]  Couple more months, and she'll all be gone.

  Bobby : [offscreen]  Ed! Lewis!

  Ed : Even up as far as here?

  Lewis : From Aintry on up. One big, dead lake.

  Lewis : [to Bobby, angrily]  OVER HERE!

• Bobby : There's no end to it.

• Bobby : Talk about genetic deficiencies-isn't that pitiful?

• Bobby : Which way we goin', this way or that way?

  Lewis : I think downstream would be a good idea.

• Bobby : Hey, what happens if we flip this thing over?

  Lewis : Now that you brought that up, hang onto your paddle. And if you hit any rocks, don't hit 'em with your head.