Sean Penn credited as playing...
Henry 'Hopper' Nash
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: [referring to a billiards player] He's good.
- Nicky: How good?
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: A lot better than he was five minutes ago.
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: Nicky, don't you ever think about anything but hiking up some girl's dress?
- Nicky: Like what?
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: Like, I don't know...
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: [in the earnest voice of an 'adult'] Like the future, son.
- Nicky: You drink too much.
- Nicky: ME?
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: Pisses me off, pisses me off badly. Because when you drink too much, it makes your brain soft.
- Nicky: [Drunkenly slur-laughing] Lemme, I gotta show you something.
- Nicky: [Does an awkward hip-thrust dance] Before I started drinking, I could not do that!
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: Why would you wanna do that?
- Nicky: It gives me pleasure!
- Nicky: Hey, it's the train. Touch the rail with your shoe, you can feel it. Let's race it like when we were kids.
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: We're drunk.
- Nicky: Who cares, I want to race it
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: We'll get killed.
- Nicky: No, we won't. No, we won't! This train's an old friend, it would never hurt us. Here she comes. Come on, Hopper! Race with me. Race with me! Race with me... Race with me, Hop!
- High School Girl: [In a school air raid drill] Where are you hurt, soldier?
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: He slipped away.
- Nicky: [Grabs at girl] Wait a minute, I seem to coming around.
- High School Girl: I'll come back when you guys got this, okay?
- Nicky: No, wait, please nurse - I want to show you my wound!
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: There's a train that runs through here. Freight. Me and Nicky must have raced it about a hundred times. You get close enough, you can feel the heat on your legs. Gondola car's your best bet. It's got these handles that stick out on the sides. Once you get your grip, it's easy. You just pull up and let her take you. But you gotta be careful when you jump, because the wind will blow you right under.
- Caddie Winger: That sounds dangerous.
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: That's why we did it.
- Caddie Winger: How come you never talk about it?
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: What?
- Caddie Winger: The war.
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: Well, what's there to talk about?
- Caddie Winger: You must think about it.
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: I think about it all the time. I mean, before, it was just there, but in the last few weeks, being around you... I think about things.
- Caddie Winger: Like what sort of things?
- Henry 'Hopper' Nash/Lou: Coming back. I'm gonna be all right, you know?