Tom Waits credited as playing...
Rudy
- Rudy: You know somebody that's buried up there?
- Francis Phelan: Yeah, a little kid.
- Rudy: Little kid? What'd he do, die young?
- Francis Phelan: Pretty young, yeah.
- Rudy: What happened?
- Francis Phelan: He fell.
- Rudy: Fell where?
- Francis Phelan: On the floor.
- Rudy: Fell on the floor? I fall on the floor about twice a day. I ain't dead yet.
- Francis Phelan: That's what you think.
- Francis Phelan: [regarding Sandra] She a bum, or just a plain drunk?
- Rudy: She's been a bum all her life.
- Francis Phelan: [chuckles] No, nobody... 'been a bum all her life'. She had to be somethin' else before she was a bum.
- Rudy: You know why people call you a bum? Because it makes them feel better when they say it.
- Francis Phelan: Well, the truth can't hurt you. If you're a bum, you're a bum.
- Rudy: Say, do you wanna be buried under a stone like that?
- Francis Phelan: I never knew no bum buried under a gravestone.
- Rudy: I don't need me no stone. Just so's we don't have to die alone.
- Francis Phelan: Got a jug?
- Rudy: I got a dollar. The nurse up and - up and gave me a dollar.
- Francis Phelan: We're in business.
- Rudy: Work where?
- Francis Phelan: Up at the cemetery, shovelin' dirt. A fella told me they was hirin'.
- Rudy: Well, are they payin' money or - are they givein' you a free grave when you croak?
- Francis Phelan: Well, if it ain't money - forget it. I ain't shovelin' my own goddamn grave.
- Francis Phelan: Go by the mission and see if anybody knows where Helen is.
- Rudy: What is Helen's name?
- Francis Phelan: Helen!
- Rudy: I just like to know where I'm headin', that's all.
- Francis Phelan: You ain't known where you been headin' for 20 years.
- Rudy: Well, you got a point there.
- Rudy: Hi, Sandra. It's me, Rudy. Are you dead or just drunk?
- [to Francis]
- Rudy: She's just drunk. She can't hold it no more. She's a goddamn Eskimo.
- Francis Phelan: Whether she's an Eskimo or whether she ain't, she's going to freeze out here. Dogs will come along and eat her ass off.
- Francis Phelan: Is she a bum? Or, just a plain drunk?
- Rudy: She's been a bum all her life.
- Francis Phelan: No, Nobody's been a bum all their life. She had to be somethin' else before she was a bum.
- Rudy: Well, she's a whore, you know, there in Alaska.
- Francis Phelan: What about before that?
- Rudy: Well, I don't know. I guess maybe she was just a little kid.
- Francis Phelan: Well, that's somethin'. A little kid is somethin'. It ain't a bum and it ain't a whore.
- Rudy: You don't tell me nothin' that's true, man.
- Francis Phelan: Every lousy goddamn thing you can think of is true.
- Rudy: I look like a goddamn bum.
- Francis Phelan: You are a bum.
- Rudy: Do you know why - do you know why people call you a bum? Because it makes 'em feel better when they say it.
- Francis Phelan: Oh, the truth can't hurt you. If you're a bum, you're a bum.
- Francis Phelan: Hey! Hey. Wake up you crazy Kraut.
- Rudy: Is that you, Frannie?
- Francis Phelan: No. It's Buffalo Bill. I'm lookin' for the Indians.