Dead Man Quotes

Dead Man is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Dead Man ended in 1970.

It features Demetra J. MacBride as producer, Neil Young in charge of musical score, and Robby Müller as head of cinematography.

Dead Man is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Dead Man is 120 minutes long. Dead Man is distributed by Miramax Films.

The cast includes: Gary Farmer as Nobody, Johnny Depp as William Blake, Crispin Glover as Train Fireman, Mili Avital as Thel Russell, Billy Bob Thornton as Big George, Iggy Pop as Sally, Jared Harris as Benmont Tench, Michael Wincott as Conway Twill, Lance Henriksen as Cole Wilson, Alfred Molina as Trading Post missionary, Robert Mitchum as John Dickinson, and Eugene Byrd as Johnny 'The Kid' Pickett.

Dead Man Quotes

Johnny Depp as William Blake

• (Johnny Depp) "I -- smell -- beans --"

• (Johnny Depp) "What is your name?"
• (Gary Farmer) "My name is Nobody."
• (Johnny Depp) "Excuse me?"
• (Gary Farmer) "My name is Exaybachay. He Who Talks Loud, Saying Nothing."
• (Johnny Depp) "He who talks -- I thought you said your name was Nobody."
• (Gary Farmer) "I preferred to be called Nobody."

• (Johnny Depp) "Do you still have my eyeglasses?"
• (Gary Farmer) "No, I traded them. Do you have any tobacco?"
• (Johnny Depp) "No, I traded it."
• (Gary Farmer) "For what?"
• (Johnny Depp) "I'm not telling."
• (Gary Farmer) "Liar."
• (Johnny Depp) "Thief."

• (Johnny Depp) "Hello."
• (Gary Farmer) "I prepared your canoe with cedarboughs. It's time for you to leave now, William Blake. Time for you to go back where you came from."
• (Johnny Depp) "You mean Cleveland?"
• (Gary Farmer) "Back to the place where all the spirits came from, and where all the spirits return. This world will no longer concern you."
• (Johnny Depp) "Found some tobacco."
• (Gary Farmer) "That tobacco is for your voyage -- William Blake."
• (Johnny Depp) "Nobody -- I don't smoke."

• (Marvin (Older Marshall)) "You William Blake?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Yes, I am. Do you know my poetry?"

• (Johnny Depp) "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."

• (Johnny Depp) "I came here to talk about my job."
• (Robert Mitchum) "The only job you're goin' to get is pushing up daisies from a pine box."

Billy Bob Thornton as Big George

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Well Sally, I don't give a pig's ass what anybody says, I still say you make a hell of a pot of beans."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "What's a Philistine?"
• (Iggy Pop) "Well, it's just a real dirty person."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "You know I just, I can't drink whiskey like I usetacould. My old belly just ain't no count. I get the s***s every time don't you know."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "By God, I'm hit. Lord have mercy. Burns like hellfire. You son of a bitch. I'm gonna have to kill somebody now."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "I don't give a s*** who saw what, and who did what, or who did who."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "That's terrible."
• (Iggy Pop) "It's horrible."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Terrible is what it is."

Michael Wincott as Conway Twill

• (Michael Wincott) "'Course you can't put much stock in a man who spends the most part of a conversation talkin' to a bear -- talkin' to a god**** bear."

• (Michael Wincott) "Hey Wilson, got any extra tobacco?"
• (Michael Wincott) "Uh. Of course, you wouldn't have any 'extra' tobacco. How 'bout you?"
• (Michael Wincott) "s***. You ain't even old enough to smoke."

• (Michael Wincott) "f***ed his parents."
• (Eugene Byrd) "He what ?"
• (Michael Wincott) "He f***ed his parents."
• (Eugene Byrd) "Both of 'em ?"
• (Michael Wincott) "Yeah. Mother. Father. Parents. Both of 'em. f***ed 'em."

• (Michael Wincott) "Jesus, Cole, he's just a kid."
• (Lance Henriksen) "Now he's a Navajo mud toy."

Gary Farmer as Nobody

• (Gary Farmer) "That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood."

• (Gary Farmer) "It is strange that you do not remember any of your poetry, William Blake."

• (Gary Farmer) "I was then taken east, in a cage. I was taken to Toronto. Then Philadelphia. And then to New York. And each time I arrived at another city, somehow the white men had moved all their people there ahead of me. Each new city contained the same white people as the last, and I could not understand how a whole city of people could be moved so quickly."

• (Gary Farmer) "Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike."

• (Gary Farmer) "The vision of Christ that thou dost see, is my vision's greatest enemy."

• (Gary Farmer) "Leave that alone stupid white man."
• (Johnny Depp) "Am I going to die?"
• (Gary Farmer) "The circle of life has no ending."
• (Johnny Depp) "Why are you helping me?"
• (Gary Farmer) "A bird told me."
• (Johnny Depp) "A bird told you?"
• (Gary Farmer) "A small magical bird with bright blue feathers"
• (Gary Farmer) "I was following him in your forest, hoping to acquire one of his indigo feathers -- and then I lost him -- and then I found him again. He was perched on your chest tasting your blood. He looked at me. Then he flew directly west in a straight line; his small beak red with your blood."

• (Gary Farmer) "Don't let the sun burn a hole in your ass, William Blake. Rise now, and drive your cart and plough over the bones of the dead."

• (Gary Farmer) "You are being followed, William Blake."
• (Johnny Depp) "Are you sure? How do you know?"
• (Gary Farmer) "Often the evil stench of white man precedes him."

• (Gary Farmer) "You were a poet and a painter, William Blake. But now, you're a killer of white men."

• (Gary Farmer) "What name were you given at birth, stupid white man?"

• (Gary Farmer) "The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow."

• (Gary Farmer) "Did you kill the white man who killed you?"
• (Johnny Depp) "I'm not dead. Am I?"

Crispin Glover as Train Fireman

• (Crispin Glover) "That doesn't explain why you've come all the way out here -- all the way out here to hell."

• (Crispin Glover) "I'll tell you one thing for sure -- I wouldn't trust no words written down on no piece of paper, especially from no Dickinson out in the town of Machine -- you're just as likely to find your own grave."

• (Crispin Glover) "Look -- they are shooting buffalo, government says -- it killed a million of 'em last year alone."

• (Crispin Glover) "Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later than night, you were lying, looking up at the ceiling, and the water in your head was not dissimilar from the landscape, and you think to yourself, "Why is it that the landscape is moving, but the boat is still?""

Jared Harris as Benmont Tench

• (Jared Harris) "Who are you travelin' with?"
• (Johnny Depp) "Uhm -- Nobody."

Lance Henriksen as Cole Wilson

• (Lance Henriksen) "Don't do that."
• (Eugene Byrd) "Why not?"
• (Lance Henriksen) "It's bad for your health --"

Mili Avital as Thel Russell

• (Mili Avital) "Watch it. It's loaded."
• (Johnny Depp) "Why do you have this?"
• (Mili Avital) "Because this is America."

Alfred Molina as Trading Post missionary

• (Alfred Molina) "God damn your soul to the fires of Hell."
• (Johnny Depp) "He already has."

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