O Brother, Where Art Thou? Quotes

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a television program that first aired in 1970 . O Brother, Where Art Thou? ended its run in 1970.

It features Ethan Coen as producer, T Bone Burnett in charge of musical score, and Roger Deakins as head of cinematography.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of O Brother, Where Art Thou? is 107 minutes long. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.

The cast includes: George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill, John Turturro as Pete, Tim Blake Nelson as Delmar O'Donnell, Chris Thomas King as Tommy Johnson, Frank Collison as Washington Hogwallop, Stephen Root as Lund, Ray McKinnon as Vernon T. Waldrip, and Daniel von Bargen as Sheriff Cooley.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Quotes

Tim Blake Nelson as Delmar O'Donnell

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "We thought you was a toad."
• (John Turturro) "What?"
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "We thought you was a toad."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Everett, I never figured you for a paterfamilias."
• (George Clooney) "Oh-ho, yes, I have spread my seed."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "You work for the railroad, Grampa?"
• (Blind Seer) "I work for no man."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Got a name, do you?"
• (Blind Seer) "I have no name."
• (George Clooney) "Well, that right there may be the reason you've had difficulty findin' gainful employment. You see, in the mart of competitive commerce --"

• (George Nelson) "Thank you folks. And remember, Jesus saves, but George Nelson withdraws."
• (George Nelson) "Go fetch the auto voiture, Pete."
• (Unnamed) "Is that "Babyface" Nelson?"
• (George Nelson) "Who said that?"
• (George Nelson) "What ignorant, low down, slanderizin, son of a bitch said that?"
• (George Nelson) "My name is George Nelson, get me?"
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "She didn't mean nothin by it, George."
• (George Nelson) "George Nelson. Not "Babyface". You remember, and you tell your friends. I'm George Nelson. Born to raise hell."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Friend? Some of your foldin' money's come unstowed."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "They -- left -- his -- heart."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Hey mister. I don't mean to be tellin' tales out of school, but there's a feller in there that'll pay you ten dollars if you sing into his can."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Them syreens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Can't you see it, Everett? Them sirens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a -- horny toad. Pete. Pete. Pete. Pete. Pete. Pete. It's me; Delmar. Everett --"
• (George Clooney) "Delmar. What the --"
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "What are we gonna do?"
• (George Clooney) "I'm not sure that's Pete."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Of course it's Pete. Look at him."

• (Pappy O'Daniel) "Furthermore, in the second Pappy O'Daniel administration, these boys is gonna be my brain trust."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "What's that mean, Everett?"

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Jacking up banks. I can see how a fella'd derive a whole lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of it."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Care for some gopher?"
• (George Clooney) "No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Oh, you can have the whole thing. Me and Pete already had one apiece. We ran across a whole -- gopher village."

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Gopher, Everett?"

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "where's the happy little tire swing?"

George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill

• (George Clooney) "I'm not sure that's Pete."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Of course it's Pete. Look at him --. We gotta find some kind of wizard to change him back."

• (George Clooney) "You can't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this. Why, the good folks here would go right off the feed."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "I just don't think it's right keeping him under wraps like we's ashamed of him."
• (George Clooney) "Well, if it is Pete, I am ashamed of him. Way I see it, he got what he deserved, fornicating with some whore of Babylon. These things don't happen for no reason, Delmar. It's obviously some kinda judgment on his character."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Well, the two of us was fixin' to fornicate."

• (George Clooney) "Me an' the old lady are gonna pick up the pieces and retie the knot, mixaphorically speaking."

• (George Clooney) "The treasure is still there boys, believe me."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "But how'd he know about the treasure?"
• (George Clooney) "I don't know Delmar. The blind are reputed to possess sensitivities compensating for their lack of sight, even to the point of developing paranormal psychic powers. Now, clearly seeing into the future would fall into neatly into that category; its not so surprising then that an organism deprived of its earthly vision --"
• (John Turturro) "He said we wouldn't get get it. He said we wouldn't get the treasure we seek on account of our ob-stac-les."
• (George Clooney) "Well what the hell does he know, he's just an ignorant old man?"

• (George Clooney) "So you're against me now too? Is that how it is boys? The whole world, God almighty, and now you."

• (George Clooney) "Jesus. Can I count on you people?"
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Sorry, Everett."

• (George Clooney) "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?"

• (George Clooney) "Say, uh, Cousin Wash, I suppose it'd be the acme of foolishness to inquire if you had a hair net."
• (Frank Collison) "Got a bunch in yon bureau, Mrs. Hogwallop's as a matter of fact"
• (Frank Collison) ". Help y'self -- I won't be needin' 'em."

• (George Clooney) "Well, as soon as we get ourselves cleaned up and we get a little smellum in our hair, why, we're gonna feel 100% better about ourselves and about life in general."

• (George Clooney) "Well, you lying -- unconstant -- succubus."
• (Ray McKinnon) "Whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't swear at my fiancé."
• (George Clooney) "Oh, yeah? Well, you can't marry my wife."

• (George Clooney) "Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason; like they had in France. And not a moment too soon --"

• (George Clooney) "Pete's cousin turned us in for the bounty."
• (John Turturro) "The hell you say. Wash is kin."
• (Frank Collison) "Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, but they got this depression on. I got to do for me and mine."
• (John Turturro) "I'm gonna kill you, Judas Iscariot Hogwallop."

• (George Clooney) "Well, it didn't look like a two-horse town, but try finding a decent hair jelly."

• (George Clooney) "I was not hit by a train. Damnit, I am the paterfamilias."

• (George Clooney) "Woo. Hot Damn, son I believe you did sell your soul to the devil."
• (Stephen Root) "Woooooooo-wee. Boy, that was a miiiighty fine a-pickin' and a-singin'. I'll tell you what, you come on in here and sign these papers here and I'm a gonna you ten dollars a piece."
• (George Clooney) "Uh, okay sir. But Murt and Aloysius will have to sign Xes as only four of us can write."

• (George Clooney) "Mmmm. How's my hair?"

• (Pappy O'Daniel) "Sounded to me like he was harboring a hateful grudge against the Soggy Bottom Boys on account of their rough and rowdy past. Looks like Homer Stokes is the kind of fellow who wants to cast the first stone."
• (Pappy O'Daniel) "Well, I'm with you folks. I'm a forgive-and-forgettin' Christian, and I say, if their rambunctiousness, and misdemeanoring, is behind them --"
• (Pappy O'Daniel) "It is, ain't it, boys?"
• (George Clooney) "Uh, yes sir, it is."

• (Penny Wharvey McGill) "I've spoken my piece and counted to three."
• (George Clooney) "She counted to three. Goddamit. She counted to three. Sonofabitch."

• (George Clooney) "I'll tell you what I am; I'm the damn paterfamilias. You can't marry him."

• (George Clooney) "What'd the devil give you for your soul, Tommy?"
• (Chris Thomas King) "Well, he taught me to play this here guitar real good."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Oh son, for that you sold your everlasting soul?"
• (Chris Thomas King) "Well, I wasn't usin' it."

• (George Clooney) "Tommy, what you ridin' there?"
• (Chris Thomas King) "Uh -- Roll top desk."

• (Pappy O'Daniel) "And furthermore, by way of endorsing my candidacy, the Soggy Bottom Boys are gonna lead us all in a rousing chorus of "You Are My Sunshine.""
• (Pappy O'Daniel) "Ain't you, boys?"
• (George Clooney) "Governor, it's one of our favorites."
• (Pappy O'Daniel) "Son -- you're gonna go far."

• (Penny Wharvey McGill) "Well, we need that ring."
• (George Clooney) "Well that ring is at the bottom of a pretty durn big lake."
• (Penny Wharvey McGill) "Uh-uh."
• (George Clooney) "A 9,000 hectare lake."
• (Penny Wharvey McGill) "I don't care if it's 90,000 --"
• (George Clooney) "But honey --"
• (Penny Wharvey McGill) "that lake was not my doing."
• (George Clooney) "Of course not honey --"
• (Penny Wharvey McGill) "I counted to three, honey."
• (George Clooney) "No, wait, honey. Finding one little ring in the middle of all that water is one hell of a heroic task."

• (George Clooney) "I like the smell of my hair treatment; the pleasing odor is half the point."

• (George Clooney) "Well, I guess hard times flush the chump. Everybody's lookin' for answers -- Where the hell's he goin'?"
• (John Turturro) "Well, I'll be a son of a bitch. Delmar's been saved."

• (George Clooney) "It ain't the law."
• (Daniel von Bargen) "The law? The law is a human institution."

• (George Clooney) "The old tactician has got a plan. For the transportation that is, I don't know how I'm gonna keep my coiffure in order."
• (John Turturro) "How's this a plan? How we gonna get a car?"
• (George Clooney) "Sell that. I figure it can only have painful association for Wash."
• (John Turturro) ""To Washington Bartholomew Hogwallop, from his loving Cora. Amor Fidel -- is.""
• (George Clooney) "It was in his bureau. I figure it'll fetch us enough cash for a good used auto-voiture, and a little left over besides."

• (George Clooney) "I detect, like me, you're endowed with the gift of gab."

• (George Clooney) "Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train?"
• (Penny Wharvey McGill) "Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal farm and I divorced you from shame?"
• (George Clooney) "Uh, I take your point. But it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny."

• (Big Dan Teague) "Thank you boys for throwin' in that fricassee. I'm a man of large appetite, and even with lunch under my belt, I was feelin' a mite peckish."
• (George Clooney) "It's our pleasure, Big Dan."

• (George Clooney) "I am the only daddy you got. I'm the damn paterfamilias."
• (Unnamed) "But you ain't bona fide."

• (George Clooney) "I don't get it, Big Dan."

• (George Clooney) "Damn. We're in a tight spot."

John Turturro as Pete

• (John Turturro) "Well I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar's been saved."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward."
• (George Clooney) "Delmar, what are you talking about? We've got bigger fish to fry."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo."
• (George Clooney) "I thought you said you was innocent of those charges?"
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away too. Neither God nor man's got nothin' on me now. C'mon in boys, the water is fine."

• (John Turturro) "Crazy. No one's ever gonna believe we're a real band."
• (George Clooney) "No, it's gonna work. I just gotta get close enough to talk to her. Takin' off with us has got more future than marryin' a guy named Waldrip. I'm god****ed bona fide."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Everett, my beard itches."

• (John Turturro) "Well hell, it ain't square one. Ain't nobody gonna pick up three filthy, unshaved hitch-hikers, and one of them a know-it-all that can't keep his trap shut."
• (George Clooney) "Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the god**** field or -- hell. Take at look at Delmar here as your paradigm of hope."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Yeah, look at me."

• (John Turturro) "I've always wondered, what's the devil look like?"
• (George Clooney) "Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hay fork."
• (Chris Thomas King) "Oh, no. No, sir. He's white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He likes to travel around with a mean old hound. That's right."

• (John Turturro) "Wait a minute. Who elected you leader of this outfit?"
• (George Clooney) "Well Pete, I figured it should be the one with the capacity for abstract thought. But if that ain't the consensus view, then hell, let's put it to a vote."
• (John Turturro) "Suits me. I'm voting for yours truly."
• (George Clooney) "Well I'm voting for yours truly too."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "Okay -- I'm with you fellas."

Frank Collison as Washington Hogwallop

• (Frank Collison) "I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I think it's startin' to turn."

• (Frank Collison) "Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T."

• (Frank Collison) "Mrs. Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T."
• (George Clooney) "She musta been lookin' for answers."
• (Frank Collison) "Possibly. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned. I do miss her cookin' though."
• (Tim Blake Nelson) "This stew's awful good."
• (Frank Collison) "You think so? I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday -- I'm afraid she's startin' to turn."

Chris Thomas King as Tommy Johnson

• (Chris Thomas King) "I had to be up at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil."
• (George Clooney) "Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated."

Stephen Root as Lund

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Daniel von Bargen as Sheriff Cooley

• (Daniel von Bargen) "Stairway to heaven. We shall all meet by and by."

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