No Country for Old Men (2007)

Gene Jones: Gas Station Proprietor

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Quotes 

• Anton Chigurh : What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Sir?

  Anton Chigurh : The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.

  Gas Station Proprietor : I don't know. I couldn't say.

  [Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand] 

  Anton Chigurh : Call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Call it?

  Anton Chigurh : Yes.

  Gas Station Proprietor : For what?

  Anton Chigurh : Just call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.

  Anton Chigurh : You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.

  Gas Station Proprietor : I didn't put nothin' up.

  Anton Chigurh : Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?

  Gas Station Proprietor : No.

  Anton Chigurh : 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Look, I need to know what I stand to win.

  Anton Chigurh : Everything.

  Gas Station Proprietor : How's that?

  Anton Chigurh : You stand to win everything. Call it.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Alright. Heads then.

  [Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads] 

  Anton Chigurh : Well done.

  [the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out] 

  Anton Chigurh : Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Where do you want me to put it?

  Anton Chigurh : Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.

  [Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out] 

• Anton Chigurh : [indicating bag of cashews]  How much?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Sixty-nine cent.

  Anton Chigurh : This. And the gas.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Y'all gettin' any rain up your way?

  Anton Chigurh : What way would that be?

  Gas Station Proprietor : I seen you was from Dallas.

  Anton Chigurh : What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

  Gas Station Proprietor : I didn't mean nothin' by it.

  Anton Chigurh : Didn't mean nothin'.

  Gas Station Proprietor : I was just passin' the time. If you don't wanna accept that I don't know what else to do for you. Will there be something else?

  Anton Chigurh : I don't know. Will there?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Is somethin' wrong?

  Anton Chigurh : With what?

  Gas Station Proprietor : With anything?

  Anton Chigurh : Is that what you're asking me? Is there something wrong with anything?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Will there be anything else?

  Anton Chigurh : You already asked me that.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Well... I need to see about closin'.

  Anton Chigurh : See about closing.

  Gas Station Proprietor : Yessir.

  Anton Chigurh : What time do you close?

  Gas Station Proprietor : Now. We close now.

  Anton Chigurh : Now is not a time. What time do you close?