The Green Mile Quotes
A collection of the best quotes from The Green Mile by your favorite characters including Paul Edgecomb, John Coffey and Brutus 'Brutal' Howell.
William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: Barbecue, me and you! Stinky pinky, pew, pew! Or dilly, Jilly, Hilly or Bob! It was a french-fried Cajun named Delacroix!Paul Edgecomb: You are about ten seconds away from spending the rest of your life in the padded room!
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John Coffey: He kill them wi' their love. Wi' their love fo' each other. That's how it is, every day, all over the world.
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Paul Edgecomb: A big man is ripping your ears off Percy. I'd do as he says.
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Paul Edgecomb: Your name is John Coffey?
John Coffey: Yes sir boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same.
Paul Edgecomb: Oh, you can spell, can you?
John Coffey: Just my name boss. J-O...
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John Coffey: I couldn't help it, boss. I tried to take it back, but it was too late.
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Paul Edgecomb: What did you just do to me?
John Coffey: I helped it. Didn't I help it? I just took it back, is all. Awful tired now, boss. Dog tired.
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Dean Stanton: What did you do?
John Coffey: I helped Del's mouse become a circus mouse, and go to that place Boss Howell was talking about down in...
Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Florida?
John Coffey: Yes. Boss Percy bad. He mean. He stepped on Del's mouse. I took it back though.
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Bill Dodge: I think this boy's cheese has done slid off his cracker.
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Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see how far you get?
John Coffey: Now why would you want to do a foolish thing like that?
Paul Edgecomb: When I die and I stand before God awaiting judgment and he asks me why I let one of HIS miracles die, what am I gonna say, that it was my job?
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Old Paul Edgecomb: I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.
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Total Quotes: 73