Steelyard Blues (1973)

Donald Sutherland: Jesse Veldini

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• Frank Veldin : I need to talk over a couple things with you. You layin' off the cars?

  Jesse Veldini : Yeah, for a while. Thought I'd get my old job with the wrecking crew back first, do some straight work for a while, till I get enough to open my own pack. Then you're gonna' see something, Frank. Not just your average, small-time fender dentin', hell no! We're gonna' do *real* demolition! And we're not gonna' just limit ourselves to cars, no sir! We're gonna' bring in campers... tractors... Dump trucks, school buses. Grain threshers - anything you want. And then when we get goin' good, then we're bringin' in the best of all: mobile homes! Can't you just see those two mothers mashin' into each other? Woooh!

  Frank Veldin : [unimpressed]  God damn it Jessie, sit down.

• Jesse Veldini : Iris, you really got some savages in here.

• Jesse Veldini : I'm not a criminal, Iris. I'm an outlaw.

  Iris Caine : What's the difference?

  Jesse Veldini : I don't know.

• Iris Caine : You're a loser!

  Jesse Veldini : You're a whore, Iris.

  Iris Caine : Don't push me.

  Jesse Veldini : Push back.

  Iris Caine : You're a bum.

  Jesse Veldini : Right. You're fantastic, Iris.

• Jesse Veldini : What are you covered up like that for?

  Iris Caine : Who do you think I am, Veldini? You pull a dumb stunt and come back after two years and think I'm gonna leap into the nearest bed with you? I'm not gonna start with you again.

  Jesse Veldini : You like these weenies, do ya?

  Iris Caine : Better than being poor.

  Jesse Veldini : What would happen if I just took ya?

  Iris Caine : You'd owe me a hundred dollars.

  Jesse Veldini : You're crazy. It was twenty when I left. Nobody pays a hundred.

  Iris Caine : Want to see the list?

• Jesse Veldini : Don't get righteous with me, Iris.