Movie Info
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, Katy Mixon
Story: Heist crime drama directed by David Mackenzie and written by Taylor Sheridan. Hell or High Water (2016) follows two brothers, Toby (Chris Pine), a divorced father trying to improve life for his son, and Tanner (Ben Foster), a volatile ex-con. They resort to robbing banks to save their family land from foreclosure. However, their plan is threatened by relentless Texas Ranger Marcus (Jeff Bridges), who is seeking one last victory before retirement. As the brothers prepare for a final heist, a showdown with the determined Ranger becomes inevitable.
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Top Hell or High Water Quotes
Toby Howard: Slow down.
Tanner Howard: I ain’t speeding.
Old Man: So are y’all going to steal my gun too?
Tanner Howard: I have my own gun.
Toby Howard: We ain’t stealing from you. We’re stealing from the bank.
Alberto Parker: [to Hamilton] You want to hear about these bank robberies, or you’ll just sit there and let Alzheimer’s run its course?
Alberto Parker: [to Hamilton] You may get to have some fun before they send you off to the rocking chair yet.
Toby Howard: I need you sober.
Tanner Howard: Who the hell gets drunk off a beer?
Marcus Hamilton: I know their faces was covered, but could you tell their race? Black, white?
Elsie: Their skin or their souls?
Marcus Hamilton: Let’s leave their souls out of this for now.
Marcus Hamilton: Well, these boys, they aren’t done yet, I’ll tell you that.
Alberto Parker: How come?
Marcus Hamilton: Well, they’re patient.
Toby Howard: You know, you talk like we ain’t going to get away with this.
Tanner Howard: I’ve never met nobody who got away with anything, ever. You?
Toby Howard: Then why in the hell did you agree to do it?
Tanner Howard: Because you asked, little brother.
Marcus Hamilton: Maybe one of these bank robbers is going to want a gunfight and I can dodge my retirement in a blaze of glory.
Alberto Parker: Well, I’ve seen you shoot. There won’t be much glory in it.
Alberto Parker: I’m starving.
Marcus Hamilton: I doubt they serve pemmican.
Alberto Parker: You know I’m part Mexican too.
Marcus Hamilton: Yeah, well, I’m going to get to that when I’m through with the Indian insults, but it’s going to be a while.
Bank Manager: You rangers are an odd bunch.
Alberto Parker: No, just him.
Marcus Hamilton: Y’all been here for a while?
Diner Patron: Well, long enough to watch a bank getting robbed that’s been robbing me for thirty years.
Tanner Howard: [referring to Justin] If he turn left where I turned right, he’ll be okay.
Gas Station Thug: You looking for trouble, m*****f***er? You came to the right place.
Tanner Howard: Boy, you’d think there were ten of me.
Tanner Howard: Are you trying to make me mad? I said Dr Pepper. This is Mr. Pibb.
Toby Howard: That’s all they had.
Tanner Howard: Only a**holes drink Mr. Pibb.
Toby Howard: Drink up.
Bear: Do you know what Comanche means? It means enemies forever.
Tanner Howard: Enemies with who?
Bear: Everyone.
Tanner Howard: You know what that makes me?
Bear: An enemy.
Bear: No. It makes me a Comanche.
Toby Howard: How the f*** have you managed to stay out of prison for a year?
Tanner Howard: It’s been difficult.
Clerk: Boy, you are trouble.
Tanner Howard: I’m the worst kind, darling. In your last days in the nursing home, you’ll think of me and giggle.
Marcus Hamilton: [referring to the TV evangelist] I’d rather have you stab me with a spear than watch this. This son of a b**ch, he wouldn’t know God if he crawled up his pant leg and bit him on the pecker.
Alberto Parker: What are you doing?
Marcus Hamilton: Sleeping on the porch, practicing my future.
Alberto Parker: It’s a dangerous thing we do for a living. You’re lucky, having seen it through to the end. I hope I’m that lucky.
Marcus Hamilton: Oh, well. Without me by your side, I doubt you’ll get close enough to a criminal to ever be in danger again.
Alberto Parker: Just when I was starting to feel sorry for you.
Marcus Hamilton: Indians ain’t supposed to feel sorry for cowboys. It’s the other way around.
Billy Rayburn: [to Toby and Tanner] You know, they loaned the least they could. Just enough to keep your mama poor on a guaranteed return. Thought they could swipe her land for twenty-five thousand dollars. That’s just so arrogant, it makes my teeth hurt. To see you boys pay those b****rds back with their own money? Well, if that ain’t Texan, I don’t know what is.
Billy Rayburn: [to Toby and Tanner] Now, they can foreclose on Friday. Come hell or high water, be at the bank in Childress on Thursday. Knowing them f***ers, they will close early.
T-Bone Waitress: You know, I’ve been working here for forty-four years. Ain’t nobody ever ordered nothing but T-bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one a**hole from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don’t sell no goddamned trout. T-bone steaks. So, either you don’t want the corn on the cob, or you don’t want the green beans. So, what don’t you want?
Marcus Hamilton: I don’t want green beans.
Alberto Parker: I don’t want green beans either.
T-Bone Waitress: Steaks cooked medium rare.
Alberto Parker: Can I get my steak cooked just…
T-Bone Waitress: That weren’t no question.
Toby Howard: Now, you may be hearing a lot of things about me and your uncle. Don’t be like us. You hear me
Justin Howard: Whatever I hear, I won’t believe.
Toby Howard: No, you believe it. I did all of it. Now, you, you do it different.
Toby Howard: Ain’t going to drink it?
Justin Howard: You tell me not to be like you, and then you offer me a beer. Which is it?
Toby Howard: Good boy.
Marcus Hamilton: People have made a living here for a hundred and fifty years.
Alberto Parker: Well, people lived in caves for a hundred and fifty thousand years, but they don’t do it no more.
Marcus Hamilton: Well, maybe your people did.
Alberto Parker: Your people did too.
Alberto Parker: A long time ago, your ancestors was the Indians, till someone came along and killed them, broke them down, made you into one of them. Hundred and fifty years ago, all this was my ancestors land. Everything you can see. Everything you saw yesterday. Till the grandparents of these folks took it. And now, it’s been taken from them. Except it ain’t no army doing it. It’s those sons of b**ches right there.
[points to the bank across the street]
Tanner Howard: Why is it always the sweet ones that are such devils when you get them revved up?
Toby Howard: Wouldn’t know. Never had a sweet one.
Tanner Howard: Yeah, you like them pi**ed off, looking for someone to blame.
Toby Howard: Sure seems that way.
Toby Howard: It’s too big.
Tanner Howard: That’s what she said.
Toby Howard: It’s no good.
Tanner Howard: This ain’t your first rodeo.
Toby Howard: Bigger bank.
Tanner Howard: More money.
Tanner Howard: [to Toby] This was your plan, and it worked. Every step of the way. Trust it.
Tanner Howard: I love you, Toby. I mean it.
Toby Howard: I love you too.
Tanner Howard: Hey, Tobe. Go f*** yourself.
Toby Howard: Go f*** yourself.
Marcus Hamilton: This is what they call white man’s intuition.
Alberto Parker: Sometimes a blind pig finds a truffle.
Tanner Howard: Lord of the Plains. That’s me.
Ranger Margaret: Toby’s got no record. He’s never been arrested. His only court appearance was at his divorce. He don’t fit the bill, Marcus. People don’t start out robbing banks. They graduate to it like his a**hole brother.
Toby Howard: I’ve been poor my whole life. So were my parents, their parents before them. It’s like a disease, passing from generation to generation, becomes a sickness. That’s what it is. Infects every person you know. But not my boys. Not anymore. This is theirs now.
Toby Howard: I’m ready to be done with this.
Marcus Hamilton: You’ll never be done with it no matter what. It’s going to haunt you, son, for the rest of your days. But you won’t be alone. It’s going to haunt me too.
Toby Howard: If you stop by, maybe I’ll give you peace.
Marcus Hamilton: Maybe. Maybe I’ll give it to you.