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Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, and Amy Wright in Wise Blood (1979)

Brad Dourif: Hazel Motes

Wise Blood

Brad Dourif credited as playing...

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: 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: [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: 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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