Raylan Givens quotes from Justified

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Yeah, you could kill Boyd. Then you'd be headed down to Florida without a star and a gun. And you might be seeing your daughter through the glass on visitation days at the penitentiary. Or, Raylan, there's another way it goes, where you try and you fail and the bullet finds you.

Raylan Givens

Unlikely.

I know you think so, but if you'll allow me... You get to be my age, do the job as long as you do... sometimes it just doesn't go your way.

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Choo-Choo

Since I was a kid, folks called me Choo-Choo.

Raylan Givens

Because you like trains?

Choo-Choo

'Cause when I hit you, it comes hard, it comes fast like a choo-choo train.

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Raylan Givens

Earl? You really need me to run down all the "or elses"?

EEarl

Actually, I was hoping you'd try grabbing my prick again, see if it goes the same way now I'm paying attention.

Raylan Givens

I ain't gonna grab it. I'm just gonna shoot it off. You understand me, Earl? I'm gonna shoot your dick off.

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Raylan Givens

Your mama asks you to take out the trash, you do as she says, but you see a copperhead on the way out, you don't go back inside, say you didn't do nothing because all she asked was take out the trash. You take out the trash and the snake.

Didn't your mama ever tell you that there's always another snake?

Raylan Givens

I knew you'd say that.

Raylan, if you declare war on them all, they're just gonna outbreed you and outlast you—and bring you down for good.

Raylan Givens

You telling me not to do the job?

No. I'm telling you not to get your ass bit.

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Raylan Givens

What do you want to bet that she and Mr. Hutchins didn't die peacefully in their sleep?

Tim Gutterson

No, but it's such a nice thought. It's how I want to go. I'm kidding. I want Sigourney Weaver to choke me out with her thighs.

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Dickie Bennett

This is one of them ecstatic visions I've been having of late. All right, all right! Here we go-o-o-o. Mighty spirit!

Raylan Givens

Dickie Bennett, this is archangel Raylan, here to deliver unto thee a loaded-up commissary in exchange for your cooperation in a federal criminal investigation.

Dickie Bennett

Oh! Message received, but I'm afraid what you ask, it's— it's just it's too g-great. It really is. I cannot see a way to answer your call.

Raylan Givens

Search your soul, numbnuts.

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Loretta McCready

Somebody please tell me what all you're talking about.

Raylan Givens

The man is making you an offer you can't refuse: sell or he kills you.

Oh, come on, now. I may make you an offer you can't refuse... but that's because I'm offering you more money than you ever imagined.

Loretta McCready

And if I don't want it at any price?

Then you'd be a bird so rare as to never before have been sighted.

Raylan Givens

The negotiation has ended. I told you you can't have my land. I'm adding hers to the list.

I don't see how you can do that, legally speaking.

Raylan Givens

You want to follow that thread, be my guest. Till then, you can put away your suitcase of money.

Or what? You gonna give me 24 hours to get out of town, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens?

Tim Gutterson

And he said he didn't do his homework.

Raylan Givens

I'm just saying there's no deal to make here.

First you turn me down. Now this. What's next? Third time? You gonna tell me that, by the power vested in you, that there's something else I ain't allowed to do? This is still America, last time I checked the flagpole.

Raylan Givens

What's next is entirely based on the next choice you make.

I think I'll burn one on the way out. Helps me think. You gonna haul me in?

Raylan Givens

No, not for weed. I can assure you of that.

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MMortician

[about Raylan's parents] And how about the manner in which they were buried?

Raylan Givens

I wasn't around, but I guarantee you he put her in the cheapest piece of shit available.

MMortician

Likely an unvaulted wooden casket.

Raylan Givens

Mm-hmm.

MMortician

And him?

Raylan Givens

I put him in the cheapest piece of shit available.

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Raylan Givens

Harlan. Hell of a place to make your fortune.

Fortune? Hell, I'm putting down roots.

Raylan Givens

Tough to do in quicksand.

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Raylan Givens

Let's just say you're putting down roots, I'm pulling up. Sick of the past.

True. Past is a shadow. Always there behind you.

Raylan Givens

In Harlan, shit, it ain't behind you. It's vertical. Dig down another layer, turn up some horror.

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Raylan Givens

I been lying to you, Boyd.

Well, now we're getting somewhere.

Raylan Givens

Keeping up the fiction that I got all manner of things tying me to Kentucky things that forestall my moving to Florida. But there is only the one thing: you.

You wanna lean in for a kiss?

Raylan Givens

Is that what you think this is, another one of your love stories?

Oh, well, I do like happy endings.

Raylan Givens

Well, this is one of them classic stories, where the hero gets his man, then he rides off into the sunset.

Or maybe it's like that other classic, where a guy chases a whale to the ends of the Earth, only to drown for his troubles.

Raylan Givens

I got to admit, there's a small part of me that's gonna miss this when it's over.

Well, don't eulogize the past till the future gets its turn.

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BBoon

Name's Boon. Pleased to meet you.

Raylan Givens

I wouldn't rush to judgment on that.

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Raylan Givens

You got more balls than sense, you know that, girl?

LMLoretta MacCready

Ain't that what they say about you?

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You know, I don't get you. Give you some of my own money to help you out. 24 hours ago upstairs, I figured you and me are simpatico. I see you're just jerking me around and using me to get Boyd.

Raylan Givens

Don't take it personal. I'm just doing what I gotta do.

Yeah. That's my plan.

Raylan Givens

What's that?

Doing what I gotta do.