The best Quotes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Erin: "I didn't go to Mexico to watch you get sh-t-faced for four days."
Kemper: "That's what you do in Mexico!"

Dante: "[seeing a Confederate flag] What? Are you serious?"
Lila: "Newsflash, we're in deep Texas."

Richter: "Sorry if a big gun makes you uncomfortable."
Melody: "I've seen bigger."

You don't want to go fooling around other folks' property. If some folks don't like it... they don't mind showing you.

I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it.

Sorry to keep you waiting, young lady. I had to lock up the shop and turn the lights off. The cost of electricity these days is enough to drive a man like me out of business.

Sally: "Oh, I wish they hadn't let the place fall apart."
Jerry: "Now it looks like the birthplace of Bela Lugosi."

Richter: "Ever shot one before?"
Lila: "No. Been shot at."
Richter: "Drunk dad?"
Lila: "Stonebrook High."

There are moments when we cannot believe that what is happening is really true. Pinch yourself and you may find out that it is.

Behold the joys of late-stage capitalism.

Lila: "So, Richter, why are you such a nihilist?"
Richter: "A what?"
Lila: "I mean, anyone who blasts diesel into the atmosphere like that, truly gives zero f-s about like anything."
Richter: "I'm a Texan. I don't like people telling me what to do. Especially smug, self-righteous, rich, city folk."

Why, my old grandpa was the best killer there was at the slaughterhouse. Why, it never took more than one lick they say. Why, he did 60 cattle in five minutes once. They say he could have done more if the hook and pull gang could have gotten the beeves out of the way faster.

The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young. But, had they lived very, very long lives, they could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the mad and macabre as they were to see that day. For them an idyllic summer afternoon drive became a nightmare. The events of that day were to lead to the discovery of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Graverobbing in Texas is this hour's top news story. An informant led officers of the Muerto County Sheriff's Department to a cemetery just outside the small rural Texas community of Newt early this morning. Officers there discovered what appeared to be a grisly work of art: the remains of a badly decomposed corpse wired to a large monument. A second body was found in a ditch near the perimeter of the cemetery. Subsequent investigation has revealed at least a dozen empty crypts, and it's feared more will turn up as the probe continues. Deputies report that in some instances only parts of a corpse have been removed, the head or in some cases the extremities removed, the remainder of the corpse left intact. Evidence indicates the robberies have occurred over a period of time. Sheriff Jesús Maldonado refused to give details in the ghoulish case, and said only that he did have evidence linking the crime to elements outside the state. Area residents have reportedly been converging on the cemetery, fearing the remains of relatives have been removed. No suspects are in custody as the investigation at the scene continues.

The stars at night, are big and bright,
deep in the heart of Texas,
The prairie sky is wide and high,
deep in the heart of Texas.

Of course, nobody I knew in East-Texas in 1989 cared about Newtonian Physics. The only Newtons they cared about were Wayne and Fig.

When a Texan gets knocked off a horse, he gets right back on. That is the second most important thing about bein' a Texan, right after thinkin' you're better than everybody else.

"Did you grow up in Texas?"
Meemaw: "Took my first bath in a ten-gallon hat."

Sheldon: "Texas, Oklahoma... what's the difference?"
Meemaw: "Hey, now, I think you might want to crack open your psychology textbook 'cause that there is crazy talk."

Amy: "Lino's reinventing Thanksgiving."
Zora: "Oh, good. 'Cause if there's anything Texans love, it's different sh-t."

Since you went away
I bet you missed your exit
And drove right on through the Lone Star state
There's a seat for you at the rodeo
And I've got every slow dance saved
Besides the Mexican food sucks north of here anyway

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

My close-up was magnificent!

Becky Feder: "Daddy! Where is it taking them?"
Marcus Higgins: "Hell."
Lenny Feder: "Higgins. Don't say that."
Marcus Higgins: "Oh I'm sorry. Not Hell... Mexico."

A tortilla is either corn or wheat. But a corn tortilla folded and filled is a taco, whereas a filled wheat tortilla is a burrito. Deep fry a burrito, it's a chimichanga. Toast a tortilla, it's a tostada. Roll it, it's an enchilada.

Hello, everyone. It's time to play a game. You all pretended to cure me. But what I have planned for each of you is very real.

Dewey Riley: "Do you have a gun?"
Sidney Prescott: "I'm Sidney Prescott. Natürlich hab ich ne Waffe."

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

We all wear masks. We all pretend. Presenting a perfect illusion on the outside, while we desperately try to hide who we are on the inside.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

I used to think you were like me. You were attracted to the darkness. But, Tate you are the darkness.

Bruce: "You remember what I told you?"
Finney Shaw: "That some day I have to stand up for myself."
Bruce: "Some day is today, Fin."

All sad people like poetry. Happy people like songs.

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

What lies ahead is not gonna be easy. But we're gonna make our lives count, not because we're the last generation - because we're in the beginning.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

I went from dying to being more alive than ever.

That's what it means to have faith, that in the darkness, in the worst of it, in the absence of light, and hope, we sing.

Michael Myers is flesh and blood. But a man couldn't survive that fire. The more he kills, the more he transcends. He's the essence of evil.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.