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Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman in Where the Heart Is (2000)

Dylan Bruno: Willy Jack Pickens

Where the Heart Is

Dylan Bruno credited as playing...

Willy Jack Pickens

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  • Willy Jack Pickens: Why does anyone lie? Cuz we're scared? Or crazy? Or just mean?... There's a million reasons why a person lies... But sometimes, you tell a lie so big... that it changes your whole life... Lie's so big... it makes you think...
  • Willy Jack Pickens: I was coming to see you.
  • Novalee Nation: Sure.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: I was.
  • Novalee Nation: What were you going to do, Willy Jack? Go back to the Wal-Mart. Think I'd still be there waiting for you 5 years later?
  • Willy Jack Pickens: No. I just.
  • Novalee Nation: I gave birth at a Wal-Mart.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Was it a boy? Was it a girl?
  • [yells]
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Is it alright? Does it have a name?
  • Novalee Nation: Yes, it's a girl. Her name is Americus and she's mine. You stay away from her!
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Stay away from her? I can't even get out of this bed, Novalee. What am I going to do, run away with her?
  • Novalee Nation: If you think I'm going to feel sorry for you.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: [interrupts] I just get some new legs and a new liver. That's all.
  • Novalee Nation: [yells] Then why'd you come here? Why you coming after us?
  • Ruth Meyers: Jesus Christ, another guitar player. What's your name?
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Willie Jack Pickens.
  • Ruth Meyers: I bet you didn't even have to make that up, did you?
  • Willy Jack Pickens: What?
  • Ruth Meyers: So, you just carry that guitar around to keep your balance?
  • Willy Jack Pickens: You want me to play?
  • Ruth Meyers: What the fuck do you think I want you to do, call bingo? One tune; your best shot.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Well, I wrote this one myself.
  • Ruth Meyers: I have goosebumps already.
  • Novalee Nation: I hope we can find a place to live that overlooks the ocean.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Hell, Novalee, you can't see the ocean from Bakersfield!
  • Novalee Nation: Well... well, maybe a pond then.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Hey Novalee! Wake up, you sound like the damn pig! Jesus, what the hell is the matter with you? And where are your shoes?
  • [looks through the back windshield]
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Well that's just great. That's great.
  • Novalee Nation: My feet are swollen. I had to take them off.
  • Novalee Nation: [yells] Ooh!
  • Willy Jack Pickens: What the hell?
  • Novalee Nation: Wal-Mart! I can go to the bathroom!
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Alright, hurry up.
  • Novalee Nation: Hun, I'm gonna need some money.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: They're gonna charge you to pee?
  • Novalee Nation: I could get some house shoes. I gotta get some kind of shoes.
  • Willy Jack Pickens: Alright, get you some house shoes. Get you some green polka dot house shoes. That way everyone will be sure to notice you!

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