Philip Seymour Hoffman credited as playing...
Reverend Veasey
- [Veasey finds a saw]
- Veasey: Hey! Look at this! This is a good saw.
- Inman: It's not yours. You take it, you make us another enemy. You are a Christian- don't you know your commandments?
- Veasey: You'll find the good Lord very flexible on the subject of property. We could do a lot with this saw. Cut down a tree. Play music with it. You're gonna thank me for this saw.
- Inman: I'll say thank you when I've lost you and I've found some food.
- Veasey: I'm so plugged up. Used to be as regular as morning prayers. Matter of fact I could set my watch by my bowels. That beeswax you fed me, day before yesterday, it stops a man up. Open my gut now they'd find turds stacked up like little black twigs.
- Veasey: The members will lynch me for sirin' a bastard while servin' as their preacher. We're a strict congregation. We've churched men for pickin' up a fiddle on the Sabbath.
- Veasey: I'm God's minister.
- Inman: What part of God's business is throwin' a woman down a gorge?
- Veasey: A slave woman, Can you see that in this light? Black as a bucket of tar.
- Inman: Is she dead?
- Veasey: No. I drugged her, like you would a butterfly, And I care for her. That's the heartbreak of it. She's got my bastard in her belly.
- Veasey: They cut off my hair. That was hard. I was vain about my hair. I had curls. But I deserved it. I'm the Reverend Veasey. Have I seen you in church?
- Ferrygirl: No, Not likely to, neither. I'd say these days, the devil rules the roost. We can go over to that cabin and I can pull this dress over my head.
- Veasey: Have we got $30?