Thurman Smutny quotes from Fargo

Listen, this Miss Mayflower. She's....she's not really...I mean, I'm sure she's real nice, but she's not someone you should be hanging around, huh? We got a real precarious situation here, living outside the law and all, so... Not to mention, I think she might've poisoned that pie she baked us. Anyway, steer clear.

Oraetta Mayflower

Oh, oh, apologies.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

What?

Oraetta Mayflower

Oh, I was simply excusing myself. I’m not normally this out of sorts.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

It’s a funeral. People cry at funerals.

Oraetta Mayflower

Ah, amen. Those are wise words for a person of your complexion. But then I’ve noticed your people are often more in touch with your spiritual side and emotional side.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

My people?

Oraetta Mayflower

The Negro. It’s a Baptist fervor, I’d wager, what causes them to hoot and tumble to the floor, aflush with the Holy Spirit.

Miss Mayflower, I see you’ve met my daughter, Ethelrida.

Oraetta Mayflower

Your daughter?

The one and only. Ethelrida, this is Miss Mayflower. She’s a nurse at St. Bartholomew.

Oraetta Mayflower

Oh yeah. Huh! Yes, now I see it. This child is certainly the product of miscegentation.

Uh, if by that you mean she’s the spitting image of her father, then I take that as a compliment.

Oraetta Mayflower

Your mother must be quite dark-skinned. As I’ve noticed in my study of the human animal, that in the combination of races, it is de rigueur for the more extreme coloration to prevail.

Loy Cannon

That's a lot of greenbacks, Thurman.

Yes, sir, it is.

Loy Cannon

Where'd you get it?

Well, sir, I'd rather not say. [Loy stares at him] It was, uh, the loss of a loved one, if you must know. My dear Uncle Boolie. He passed last week, left me this money, and since you were nice enough to give us that loan, I figured I should bring it you straight away.

Loy Cannon

So he left you this bag of cash. Your uncle...what was it?

Boolie. No, sir. His bequeathment came in check form. Uh, I just figured cash should be easier for you.

Loy Cannon

Thurman, Thurman. Always thinking. I got to tell you, I can't remember the last time a white man tried to make my life easier.

Well, here's me, then.

Loy Cannon

Here's you. [Loy takes a long, suspicious stare at Thurman, making Thurman nervous] Well, okay! Thanks for stopping by.

Okay then. [Thurman stands up] That's...hoo! I got to say, I really thought you were gonna shoot me there, money or no.

Loy Cannon

I thought about it.

[chuckling nervously] I'm gonna go now.

Loy Cannon

Good choice.

You have a lovely home. Uh...

Loy Cannon

Leave now.