- Bobby Lee: Well, that's not the place where I prove my manhood. But since the subject has come up, you think you might boost it a little by letting me drive?
- Bobby Lee: Jesse, she's in trouble.
- Uncle Jesse: Did you do it?
- Bobby Lee: It ain't that kind of trouble.
- Bobby Lee Hagg: We gonna deliver every drop of Jesse's whiskey the way he wanted it done: undiluted, uncorrupted, and untaxed.
- Grady: See what you're missing by living in Misissippi.
- Bobby Lee Hagg: You better watch him.
- Beth Ann Eubanks: I'm watching everybody.
- Grady: You better stay behind me tonight. I ain 't got no brakes.
- Zeebo, Bootlegger: That little thing on the left? Never use it.
- Cooter Pettigrew: They oughta oulaw that thing. It's dangerous.
- Bobby Lee Hagg: Bethel Ann Eubanks,you sure are a good cook.
- Uncle Jesse: Girl,you are a mighty good cook.Your Mama taught you right.
- Beth Ann Eubanks: Hell,my Mama was a lousy cook.I learned to cook to keep from eating hers.
- Beth Ann Eubanks: Mr.Hagg,I can cook a little.
- Uncle Jesse: That's good, because a little is all we ever have to cook around here.
- The Balladeer: He had 7 Dollars in his pocket,an apple,a guitar,and he was free. What more could he need?
- [camera shows a young woman's tight buttocks in blue jeans]
- The Balladeer: And there it wuz.
- The Balladeer: [repeated song lyric throughout the movie] I wanted to be something that you could depend on.
- Beth Ann Eubanks: I slept out by the creek.
- Bobby Lee Hagg: You slept out alone?
- Beth Ann Eubanks: I never sleep alone.
- Beth Ann Eubanks: I always sleep with a 45 Automatic.
- Jake Rainey, Bootlegger: This ain't me talking. This is New York talking.
- Bobby Lee: I'm scared,real scared. You scared?
- Grady: Running down my leg.