Zelmare Roulette quotes from Fargo

Zelmare Roulette

[regarding Oraetta] That is one weird white lady.

Zelmare Roulette

Looks like you done well for yourself these years I've been away.

You ain't getting no handout.

Zelmare Roulette

Listen at you, acting like the big sister. Wasn't asking for money. Swanee and I got prospects.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

What kind of prospects?

Bank robbing. [Swanee makes a finger gun gesture] Pa-choo, pa-choo.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

Aunt Zelmare, what would you do if you saw something wrong? Something you could fix?

Nothing.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

What do you mean?

I mean nothing.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

Because you're a criminal?

I ain't a criminal.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

You're innocent, you're saying?

Girl, I ain't been innocent since Uncle Charlie cornered me in the shed when I was nine.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

Then I don't understand.

She's saying we ain't criminals. We're outlaws.

See, criminals play the game.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

What game?

Life. The earth.

Society, right? They got their rules. Banking and family. An honest dollar for an honest day's work. Politics and voting. And the criminal, he on the other side of that, but still he play the game. And if he plays it long enough, he even starts to talk about going legit.

The outlaw, on the other hand...

The outlaw, on the other hand, well, we reject the game. Society. Ain't nothing organized about our crime 'cause our crime is freedom.

No rules.

And nothing's ever broke and there ain't nothing to fix.

All we want is to live while we're alive and die with a gun in our hands.

You a bit of an outlaw.

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

Me?

Yeah. Your mama sees it, too. In the eyes. That's why she say, "Keep away."

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

I'm not an outlaw.

Then which are you - a convict or a square?

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

I'm not either one of those things.

What are you then?

Ethelrida Pearl Smutny

I'm Ethelrida Pearl Smutny. One of a kind.