Thomas Haden Church credited as playing...
Ansel Smith
- Killer Joe Cooper: I mean all she did was suck his cock and try and steal your money. It could have been worse.
- Ansel Smith: How?
- Killer Joe Cooper: Well... no, I suppose that's about as bad as it gets.
- [Joe just broke Sharla's nose and forced her to give fellatio to a chicken drumstick]
- Ansel Smith: Sharla?
- Sharla Smith: Yes.
- Ansel Smith: Are you okay?
- Sharla Smith: Yes, I'm fine Ansel.
- Ansel Smith: Are you sure?
- Sharla Smith: Yes I'm sure.
- Ansel Smith: Okay.
- [Sharla is spraying herself with perfume]
- Ansel Smith: When you're done fumigating the gates of hell...
- Sharla Smith: You want some chicken? I stopped by the K-Fry-C.
- Killer Joe Cooper: Yes, please.
- Sharla Smith: Help yourself. It's on the stove.
- Ansel Smith: Get it for him, would you hun?
- Sharla Smith: Sure. White or dark?
- Killer Joe Cooper: Leg.
- [after Chris got beat up]
- Ansel Smith: What'd they say to you?
- Chris Smith: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THEY SAID?
- Ansel Smith: I'm thinkin' they want their money.
- Chris Smith: NO SHIT!
- Chris Smith: Can you try making a little more noise?
- Ansel Smith: Why don't you try kissing my ass, you son of a bitch?
- Sharla Smith: She's never even had a boyfriend before, except for some fat kid who never even knew her name.
- Ansel Smith: Sharla! What about my beer money? Sharla! What fat kid?
- Killer Joe Cooper: My payment is 25 thousand dollars, in cash, in advance. No exceptions.
- Ansel Smith: 25?
- Killer Joe Cooper: Yes sir.
- Ansel Smith: [to Chris] I thought you said 20.
- Chris Smith: I was told 20.
- Killer Joe Cooper: 25. Is that a problem?
- Chris Smith: We don't have a problem with 25. That's not our problem.
- Killer Joe Cooper: What is your problem?
- Chris Smith: We have a problem with the advance.
- Killer Joe Cooper: No exceptions.
- Chris Smith: Sir, let me explain. One of the reasons we're interested in having this done, is my mother holds a very large insurance policy.
- Killer Joe Cooper: They usually do.
- Chris Smith: We thought if we could guarantee payment after the policy had been covered...
- Killer Joe Cooper: Look, this really isn't open for discussion. The conversation is finished.
- [Chris goes after him as he leaves]
- Killer Joe Cooper: What did you think this is, Let's Make a Deal? This is serious business you're fucking with here, boy.
- Chris Smith: I'm aware of that.
- Killer Joe Cooper: No, I don't think you are. I don't take you seriously.
- Chris Smith: This is going to get done, one way or another.
- Killer Joe Cooper: [to beaten-up Sharla] Now, you're a very beautiful woman. Don't you think so, Ansel?
- Ansel Smith: I hadn't given it much thought.
- Killer Joe Cooper: [Punches the wall] NO! WRONG ANSWER!
- Chris Smith: Put some pants on. I need to talk to you about something.
- Ansel Smith: I need pants for that?
- Chris Smith: Look at it this way: Is she doing anybody any good?
- Ansel Smith: What do you mean?
- Chris Smith: I mean is anybody gonna care if mom's not around any more?
- Ansel Smith: Yeah, Rex!
- Chris Smith: Son of a bitch screws anything that draws breath.
- Ansel Smith: That doesn't mean he doesn't care.
- Chris Smith: He'd be tickled pink. You should see the way she treats that poor bastard.
- Ansel Smith: Probably the same way she treated me.
- Chris Smith: What's better for Dottie? Having ten thousand dollars so she could go to that Amazon school. Or having a beat-up, old, naggy alcoholic mother for another twenty years or so?
- Ansel Smith: I see your point.