The Grifters Quotes with Sound Clips

Memorable quotes from The Grifters, featuring sound clips of the best lines.

Actors: John Cusack (Roy Dillon), Anjelica Huston (Lilly Dillon), Annette Bening (Myra Langtry), Henry Burk Jones (Mr. Simms)

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1 Not partners. That's your first lesson. Cut your score in half, right down the middle. Worse than that, you take a partner, you put an apple on your head and hand the other guy a shotgun.

2 They don't make the money, see, for a place like this. Not regularly. There's only way they can get it. By selling theirself... tapping them cute little piggy banks they all got.

— Mr. Simms (Henry Burk Jones)

3 You hit a person with the oranges wrapped up in a towel, they get big, ugly-looking bruises, but they don't really get hurt, not if you do it right. It's for working scams against insurance companies.

— Lilly Dillon (Anjelica Huston)

4 You want a drink? -No! You probably shouldn't have one either. -No, but I'm goddam thirsty.

— Roy Dillon (John Cusack), Lilly Dillon (Anjelica Huston)

5 A visitor... A very attractive young lady. She says she's your mother. -Send her up.

— Mr. Simms (Henry Burk Jones)

6 I gotta have a partner. I looked and looked and believe me, brother, I kissed a lotta _ing frogs... and you're my prince!

— Myra Langtry (Annette Bening)

7 I wasn't a very good mother to you when you were a kid. It was pretty lousy of me, I guess. To be a child at the same time you were.

— Lilly Dillon (Anjelica Huston)

8 Oh, oh, of course. Now that I see you in the light, you're pretty old enough to be Roy's mother. -Aren't we all?

— Myra Langtry (Annette Bening)

9 Well, that's fine. 2 months we know each other you're already so bored... you fall asleep before I get here. -When you're not here, all I can do is dream about you.

— Roy Dillon (John Cusack), Myra Langtry (Annette Bening)

10 What is it? What's going on? Why don't you wanna team up? -The best reason I can think of is that you scare the hell outta me.

— Roy Dillon (John Cusack), Myra Langtry (Annette Bening)

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