Robert Quarles quotes from Justified

Robert Quarles

I'll be back for the crown prince's arrival. And I will get us more money. I'm just gonna put a smile on my face, and eat a nice plate of steaming shit... unsalted.

Robert Quarles

And people will conspire to keep you down. You will reach for the edge, and they will lean the heels of their boots on your fingers. And you just keep fighting, and scratching and pulling, and just when you think you've reached the top of the mountain, they changed the rules. Then you have to start from the beginning, so what do you do? I know what you don't do, you don't quit. You don't run. You don't stick that gun in the back of your throat. You realize that you were wrong, you were wrong in thinking that you had already won. You claw your way back into the fight. True victory... is when you crush your opponent so completely that he realizes that he was wrong in opposing you from the beginning. And you stand atop of the mountain.

Robert Quarles

You know, you disappoint me, Wynn. Word around the Detroit campfire is that you were a wild man. Comes to a little nut-cutting, suddenly you want to bitch out. Don't be like the rest of them. You can't have the "Duffy" without the "Wynn".

Robert Quarles

Boyd, have you heard the saying, "the most successful war seldom pays for its losses"?

Boyd Crowder

Thomas Jefferson. Prison doesn't offer much, but it does give a man ample time to read.

What you got to remember is Dad ain't big on second chances, and you only got one because of what he invested in you in the first place.

Robert Quarles

Tell the old man that I do not need a second chance.

That's good. Because you remember what happened last time there were hiccups? You went a little crazy, you remember that? Have you told Mr. Duffy here about your your rent boy? About all it took to squash that?

Robert Quarles

I don't think Mr. Duffy is interested in the story. Anything else, Sam? No? Good. Then we got a lot of work to do.

Robert Quarles

I just got lucky. Amazing wife. Great kids. No, my problem all stems from my work.

Gary Hawkins

Ohh, yeah?

Robert Quarles

I swear, I'd be running the whole organization if it wasn't for my boss's idiot son.

Wynn Duffy

Mr. Quarles, maybe it is time you leave Kentucky.

Robert Quarles

I got nowhere else to go.

Wynn Duffy

It's some kid.

Robert Quarles

See what he wants.

Wynn Duffy

Can I help you? (Donovan backs him up with a gun in his hand) Good call.

Robert Quarles

Yeah. (pause) Oh! There's a young man with a gun in our trailer, Wynn.

Wynn Duffy

Yeah, I noticed.

Robert Quarles

Did- did you do something to upset him?

Wynn Duffy

I don't even know him.

You and me got a friend in common.

Robert Quarles

Oh yeah?

Brady Hughes.

Wynn Duffy

Who's Brady Hughes?

...Go ahead. Tell him.

Robert Quarles

You're friends with Brady?

Friends enough to know that the last time anyone saw him was with you, getting into a car together.

Robert Quarles

Brady is a beautiful soul.

I don't want to hear your bullshit!

Robert Quarles

What would you like to hear?

The truth! I want you to admit that you killed him.

Robert Quarles

But that's not true.

Then where is he?

Robert Quarles

I don't know.

Yes, you did! You killed him, and I want to hear you say it.

Robert Quarles

And then you're going to kill me?

Say it!

Robert Quarles

How old are you, son?

Old enough-

Robert Quarles

19? 20? I was 14 years old when I killed my first man. I was given a choice: I would do it myself, or they would do it for me.

You took him from me.

Robert Quarles

...No. I didn't. My father was a heroin addict. (gets up) He wasn't necessarily an evil man, but he couldn't kick his addiction, couldn't hold a job, either. But to feed his addiction, he used the resources at his disposal.

I don't care about your shit!

Robert Quarles

Luckily for my father, he had a very... pretty little boy. And plenty of men were willing to pay for my company. What is your name?

Donovan.

Robert Quarles

That's what it was like for me, Donovan, for many years. (approaches Donovan) And then one day, a man named Theo realized what was happening. You see, Theo believed deeply in family, and one afternoon, an associate of Theo's picked me up from school, and we took a ride in his Cadillac to a warehouse. Theo ushered me in, where inside, on his knees, was my father. I was 14 years old, and I remember how it felt... to suddenly be free. You see, Donovan, I understood your friend Brady. I knew him without really knowing him, do you understand?

Then why'd you hurt him?

Robert Quarles

"Hurt him?" No, son, I never hurt him. I did everything I could to help him. (points Donovan's gun away and hugs him) And then I set him free. I set him free.

Raylan Givens

I'm sorry, we're closed.

Robert Quarles

Sure doesn't look closed.

Raylan Givens

Yeah, well, we are. We're closed.

Robert Quarles

Oh, that's right. He's the bouncer now.

Raylan Givens

Wynn, take him out of here.

Wynn Duffy

I voiced my concerns, and they fell on deaf ears.

Raylan Givens

You got two minutes-

Robert Quarles

Marshal, aren't you going to ask me what I want?

Raylan Givens

I don't think I will, no.

Robert Quarles

There was an election today in Harlan County, and your man Boyd Crowder pulled a fast one on me. He slipped that hillbilly rug right out from under my feet.

Raylan Givens

I'm just gonna file that under "Who Gives A Shit?"

Robert Quarles

Well now, usually I'd be in a position to handle something like that, (snorts) because that's what I do. But then I got to thinking, I'd still have to worry about incurring your wrath.

Raylan Givens

I'm sorry, my wrath? Uh, you don't need to worry about that. You guys can take each other out.

Robert Quarles

And your father?

Raylan Givens

Sure, him too. Take 'em both out.

Robert Quarles

And that's why you are the way you are, Raylan. 'Cause your daddy's a criminal.

Raylan Givens

That's it, your two minutes are up.

Robert Quarles

I understand you've been snooping around about my friend, Brady Hughes.

Raylan Givens

Brady Hughes? Who's that, that the street kid you killed?

Robert Quarles

(gets up) You know, I decided upon something tonight, Jim Bob.

Raylan Givens

Did you?

Robert Quarles

I did... but I wanted to come down here and talk to you myself, right out of the horse's mouth.

Raylan Givens

I'm sure that wasn't necessary-

Robert Quarles

I'm gonna kill you, Raylan. Maybe not tonight, maybe not tomorrow, but some day you'll be walking down the street and I'm gonna put a bullet right in the back of your skull and you're gonna drop.

Raylan Givens

US Marshal! I want everyone out of the building, right now! Get your stuff and get out! (Quarles laughs) Why wait?

Wynn Duffy

Okay, you had your fun. Let's go-

Robert Quarles

I'm not going anywhere. Neither are you. So how long do you think it'll take before the cops get here?

Raylan Givens

Mmm, they may not even come. I did show my badge.

Robert Quarles

And how do we do this?

Raylan Givens

You draw. I put you down.

This is a katana. My granddad pulled this off a dead jap officer at Shuri castle, Okinawa!

Robert Quarles

The greatest generation at work.

He was a lying old sack of shit. Probably just bought it.

Wynn Duffy

Are you smoking Oxycontin in my motor coach?

Robert Quarles

I most certainly am.

Wynn Duffy

Do that in your own vehicle.

Robert Quarles

My car's not that comfortable.

Wynn Duffy

Robert. Limehouse told you where to wait. Go wait there.

Robert Quarles

Is daddy getting mad?

Wynn Duffy

For once in your life, do what has been asked of you.