I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five. Hard to believe. Grandfather was a lawman. Father too. Me and him was sheriff at the same time, him in Plano and me here. I think he was pretty proud of that. I know I was.
No Country for Old Men (2007)
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A screenplay character in No Country for Old Men (2007).
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Sample dialogue
I always liked to hear about the old- timers. Never missed a chance to do so. Nigger Hoskins over in Bastrop County knowed everbody's phone number off by heart. You can't help but compare yourself against the old- timers. Can't help but wonder how they would've operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it.
scene 3 — EXT. WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE - DAWN/DAY...He would have to say, okay, I'll be part of this world.
scene 4 — EXT. WEST TEXAS ROAD - DAYTold me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again.
scene 4 — EXT. WEST TEXAS ROAD - DAYI always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job -- not to be glorious. But I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand.
scene 4 — EXT. WEST TEXAS ROAD - DAY...and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. Out there up ahead.
scene 152 — EXT. SNOWY MOUNTAIN PASS - NIGHT
Bookends
You can say it's my job to fight it but I don't know what it is anymore.