Spencer's Mountain (1963)

Henry Fonda: Clay Spencer

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Quotes 

• Olivia Spencer : Must you, we got company!

  Clay Spencer : [drunk]  Come open your arms because I'm going to kiss those ruby lips right off you

  [attempting to kiss her] 

  Olivia Spencer : Oh Clay Stop it! Behave yourself the minister and Ms Parker are in there

  Clay Spencer : Oh good for Ms Parker

  [continues to kiss and grab his wife] 

  Olivia Spencer : Clay Stop Clay!

  Clay Spencer : I love you woman

• Dean Beck : What do you have against preachers?

  Clay Spencer : It's what they preach *against* I'm against.

  Dean Beck : I'm afraid I don't understand?

  Clay Spencer : They're against everything I'm for. They don't allow drinkin' or smokin', card playin', pool shootin', dancin', cussin' - or huggin', kissin' and lovin'. And mister, I'm for *all* of them things.

• Clay Spencer : I can now all I need was the boy being accepted, he's my Collateral

  [he leaves] 

  Clay Spencer : [Dean's secretary leaves] 

  Dean's Secretary : You must live for days like this.

  [to the Dean] 

• Olivia Spencer : It wouldn't surprise me at all if the good lord Himself kept Clayboy from gettin' that scholarship.

  Clay Spencer : Why'd the Lord wanna' do that?

  Olivia Spencer : Well, after the graduation we were all so puffed up, and braggin' about him so, and, well, pride cometh before a fall. If the Lord put you on this earth to be poor, poor you're going to be. And if you're born ignorant, well then you're destined to *die* ignorant!

  Clay Spencer : Where the hell did you pick up a piece of information like that?

  Olivia Spencer : In the Bible, and you stop swearing!

  Clay Spencer : Show me where it says something like that!

  Olivia Spencer : Well, I, I can't exactly show you *where,* but I heard a preacher...

  Clay Spencer : Woman, you been listening to too many preachers!

• Clay Spencer : I learned to cuss before I could walk.

• Clay Spencer : You mean to say that not one single hymn-shoutin', foot-washin' hypocrite showed up?

• Preacher, Mountain Church : [concerned about the new preacher's supposed drinking]  I've heard rumors that...

  Clay Spencer : Bah! He never had a drink in his life before *I* poured it on him. I'd sure hate to see your whole congregation get stunk up tonight. Once them skunks start sprayin' their skunk juice around, they say you *never* get the stink out.

• Clay Spencer : [looking at portrait paintings on the wall outside the dean's office]  Well, they look smart, but I wonder if any of 'em ever did an honest day's work?

• Clay Spencer : Papa dead?

  Dr. Campbell : No, he's alive, Clay, but it can't be for long. He's broken nearly every bone in his body. I gave him enough morphine to get him down the mountain.

  Clay Spencer : [to Clayboy]  Better get down there, son. Prepare the women for bad news.

• [Clay returns Preacher Goodman intoxicated in front of the welcoming committee] 

  Clay Spencer : It's all my fault. Seems your preacher's never had a bottle to his lips before.

  Preacher Clyde Goodman : Bless you all. *HIC*

  Mother Ida : Merciful heavens! He's drunk!