The Green Mile (1999)
David Morse: Brutus 'Brutal' Howell
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Quotes
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John Coffey : There's lotsa people here that hate me, lots. I can feel it. It's like bees stingin' me.
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Well, feel how we feel then. We don't hate you. Can you feel that?
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Percy Wetmore : [after finding Mr. Jingles alive after he steps on him] You switched 'em. You switched 'em somehow, you bastards.
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Yeah I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this.
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Percy Wetmore : [while tapping Arlen's burned face after being electrocuted] Adios, Chief! Drop us a card from Hell, let us know if it's hot enough...
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : [Brutus grabs Percy's arm and pushes him away from Arlen's body] He's paid what he's owed; he's square with the house again, so keep your goddamn hands off him!
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Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Well, there must be something we can do for you, John. There must be something we can do that you want.
John Coffey : [pauses] I ain't never seen me a flicker show.
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Brutus "Brutal" Howell : [a rehearsal execution] Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before the sentence is carried out?
Toot-Toot : [gleefully] Yeah! I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have Mae West sit on my face, because I am one horny motherfucker!
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Paul Edgecomb : John, do you know where we're taking you?
John Coffey : Help a lady?
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : That's right. But how do you know?
John Coffey : Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much'o anything.
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Dean Stanton : What did you do?
John Coffey : I helped Del's mouse become a circus mouse. Gonna live in a mouse city. Down in...
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Florida?
John Coffey : [John nods] Boss, Percy bad. He mean. He stepped on Del's mouse. I took it back though.
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Paul Edgecomb : [whispers] Goddamn, the sponge is dry!
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Well, don't you stop it! Don't you do it. It's too late for that.
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Paul Edgecomb : [to Dean Stanton who is standing in the doorway with a broom] You let him get past you.
Dean Stanton : No, I did not.
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Three grown men... outsmarted by a mouse.
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Brutus "Brutal" Howell : You all right in there?
Paul Edgecomb : Yeah, for a man pissing razor blades.
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Paul Edgecomb : I wanna hear about this new inmate, aside from how big he is!
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Monstrous big!
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Brutus "Brutal" Howell : [Brutal gets his first look at John Coffey, before Paul] He's enormous!
Paul Edgecomb : [smirks] Can't be bigger than you!
[both snicker]
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Paul Edgecomb : [while strapping him into a straitjacket] C'mon, Wild Bill, you're gonna walk your walk.
Wild Bill Wharton : Don't you call me that! Wild Bill Hickok was no range rider! He was just another bushwackin' John Law! Dumb sonofabitch sat with his back to the door, kilt by a drunk!
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : Oh my suds and body, a history lesson! Boy, you just never know just what your gonna get when you come to work everyday on the Green Mile.
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Paul Edgecomb : John, do you know where we're taking you?
John Coffey : Help a lady?
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : That's right. But how do you know?
John Coffey : Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much o' anything.
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William 'Wild Bill' Wharton : [Brutus Howell hands out cold sodas to the other guards] Hey, hey, I'm gonna get some too, ain't I?
Brutus "Brutal" Howell : My ass you get some too.
Paul Edgecomb : What makes you think you deserve any?
William 'Wild Bill' Wharton : [mutters] 'Cause I got a big pecker...
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Brutus "Brutal" Howell : [Percy has stamped on his mouse] Oh, you one evil son of a bitch!
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Brutus "Brutal" Howell : He's chokin'. Whatever he sucked out of her, he's choking on!
