Electra Glide in Blue (1973)

Robert Blake: John Wintergreen

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Quotes 

• John Wintergreen : You see, you've been back only six weeks, and I'm gonna do for you what it took somebody six months to do for me.

  Truck Driver : Yes, sir. What's that?

  John Wintergreen : Nothin'.

• John Wintergreen : I think I'll go over and check out the Black Canyon.

  Motor Officer Zipper Davis, John's Partner : Aww, there ain't no action over there!

  John Wintergreen : Zipper, that's the story of your life... there ain't no action, at no time, at no place... I'll see you later. Somebody's gotta be doing something bad somewhere!

• John Wintergreen : Loneliness. Do you know that loneliness'll kill you deader than a .357 Magnum? Did you know that?

• John Wintergreen : I need you to give me some information.

  Pig Man : I'll give you some information. You're standing in pigshit.

• John Wintergreen : You listen to me, hatchet artist! You're tampering with evidence and if you put your finger on one more thing in this room, I'm going to bust your ass! That's right... the officer in charge is talking to you and he's saying that you're going to be arrested as an accessory, after the fact, in a murder case!

  Coroner : Now you listen to me. I have had had a lot of patience with you. You want to be a policeman. You want to stay on the force. Well you just get the hell out of here and get on that motorcycle and start tagging automobiles... 'cause if I hear one more peep out of that goddamn yap of yours, I'm going to see that you get sent to Sibieria!

• John Wintergreen : Did you know that me and Alan Ladd were exactly the same height? Right down to the quarter inch? Did you know that? It's just something you know, you know? Like sometimes you read a lot and you just remember a little bit? Then there's sometimes you read a little bit and you remember a whole lot. I remember one time, I heard somebody say, "Do you know what was Alan Ladd and William Bendix's first movie?" And just like that, I said 'The Blue Dahlia'. And I never even saw the movie. But I bet five dollars and I won it. Did you know that he was so short that they used to have to dig a ditch for the girls to stand in to kiss him? You didn't know that, huh?

• John Wintergreen : I hate that motorcycle they make me ride. I'm here to tell you there ain't nothing in the world I hate worse than that elephant under my ass.

• John Wintergreen : Listen, I wanna give you a little advice. Don't look for favors, 'cause that's the wrong foot to get started on. You're talkin' to a fella who knows.

• Jolene, Harve's Girlfriend : Big John?

  John Wintergreen : Yeah.

  Jolene, Harve's Girlfriend : Did you ever see 'Valley of the Dolls'?

  John Wintergreen : My dove, I got my valley of the dolls right here.

  [puts his head between Jolene's breasts] 

• John Wintergreen : Zipper, that's Zemko

• John Wintergreen : Yeah, well, the truth of the matter is, John Wintergreen, you don't know your ass from a row of rat hit in a wind storm.

  John Wintergreen : Hi there.

  John Wintergreen : I'm talking to myself.

  John Wintergreen : But I ain't listening.

  John Wintergreen : You're supposed to listen to your inner voices

  John Wintergreen : They tell you what to do.

  John Wintergreen : Ain't that funny how people do all kind of things, and most of it's just a lot of bullshit?

  John Wintergreen : You know what?

  John Wintergreen : Ninety percent of the things I've done in my life ain't as important as you sweeping that floor... or sitting there eating your sandwich.

  John Wintergreen : You know why?

  John Wintergreen : 'Cause you listen to yourself.

  John Wintergreen : Me, I listen to everybody in the whole damn world except me.

  John Wintergreen : I'd like to start all over again.

  John Wintergreen : Ain't that the damndest thing?

  John Wintergreen : My old man used to listen to himself.

  John Wintergreen : And when he died, they told me it was a thrombosis.

  John Wintergreen : But I know it was suicide.

  John Wintergreen : Loneliness.

  John Wintergreen : Do you know that lonliness'll kill you deader than a .357 Magnum?

  John Wintergreen : Did you know that?

  John Wintergreen : Old Frank is dead.

  John Wintergreen : Boy, blowed in half.

  John Wintergreen : I saw him.

  John Wintergreen : And I know who killed him.

  John Wintergreen : Now, ain't that the damndest thing?

  John Wintergreen : I just listen to myself, and I know who killed him.

  John Wintergreen : Ain't that the damnedest thing?

• John Wintergreen : Hello, easy street.

  Jolene, Harve's Girlfriend : Oh, Johnny, don't you ever get tired?

  John Wintergreen : I do, but the important part don't.

• John Wintergreen : I got a Coke and a Fresca and a Tab. I didn't know which one you'd like.

• John Wintergreen : Well, the truth of the matter is, John Wintergreen, you don't know your ass from a row of rat shit in a wind storm.