Wise Blood (1979) Poster

(1979)

Brad Dourif: Hazel Motes

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  • Hazel : No man with a good car needs to be justified!

  • Hazel : ...the Church of Christ Without Christ. Where the blind can't see, the lame don't walk, and the dead stay that way.

  • Hazel : 'Twas like where you're from weren't never there. Where you're going doesn't matter. And where you are ain't no good unless you can get away from it!

  • Hazel : Your conscience is a trick, it don't exist, and if you think it does, then you had best get it out in the open, hunt it down and kill it.

  • Hazel : I don't have to run away from anything, cause I don't believe in anything.

  • Hazel : [repeated line, about his rusted-out, disintegrating car]  This is a good car, Mister! This car can take me anywhere I wanna go!

  • Hazel : This car is just beginning its life, a lightning bolt couldn't stop it.

  • Hazel : Two things that I just can't stand- a man that ain't true and one that mocks what is.

  • Hazel : I thought if your girl give me so much fast eye back there I just might return some of it.

    Sabbath Lily : What I give you the other day was the look of indignation for what I seen you do. It was you that give me the fast eye.

  • Hazel : What the hell kind of a preacher are you not to see if you can save my soul?

  • Old man storekeeper : Was ya' wounded, Haze?

    Hazel : Yes, I was.

    Old man storekeeper : How come you wasn't wearin' no Purple Heart?

    Hazel : Well, I got one, but I didn't want people to know *where*... I was wounded.

  • Landlady : [on discovering Hazel mortifying his flesh]  People quit doing things like that.

    Hazel : People still doing it so long as I'm doing it.

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