White Lightning (1973)

Ned Beatty: Sheriff J.C. Connors

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Quotes 

• Gator McKlusky : [upon meeting Sheriff Connors]  Only two things in the world I'm scared of.

  Sheriff Connors : Only sacred o' two things? Whats that?

  Gator McKlusky : Women and the po-lice.

  Dude Watson : [laughing nervously]  Women and the police.

  Sheriff Connors : You spend all your time tryin' to hump 'em both. Don't ya.

  Gator McKlusky : Yeah.

  [Gator and Connors both laugh] 

• Sheriff Connors : [after Junior wrecks the police car]  I told ya didn't I?... *I told ya, and I told ya*!... Damn hardhead!

• Sheriff Connors : Communism, Harvey, that's what it is. That's plain and simple. That is plain as the nose on your face. The Communists! That's what he says: "Destroy from the inside."

  Harvey : What are you gonna' do?

  Sheriff Connors : [pauses to consider]  I'm gonna' get mean, Harvey.

  Harvey : You don't understand. It can't be the way it was. It cannot be the way it was, J.C. Understand it!

  Sheriff Connors : Harvey, don't you know there are times that your learned opinion is about as useless as tits on a boar hog?

  [walks out of the room] 

• Sheriff Connors : [nonchalantly, after he's pinched Skeeter's fingers in a door jamb to make him talk]  Get some ice water for them fingers, now.

• Sheriff Connors : [at Dude's funeral]  Respects and condolences to you ma'am.

  Maggie : You go to *hell*!

• Highway Patrol : You OK?

  Sheriff Connors : You see me walkin', don't ya?

• Sheriff Connors : [Junior and Sheriff Connors are chasing Gator]  Junior, you know if you lose this thing, it's comin' outta your pay?... You know that don't ya?