Thunder and Lightning (1977)

Eddie Barth: Rudi Volpone

Quotes 

• Rudi Volpone : [thinking it is Ralph Jr. in the station wagon and has his gun drawn out]  Smile, R.J., smile. You're on Candid Camera! You're not R.J.

  Scooter : No, I'm Scooter Davis.

  Rudi Volpone : Where's R.J.? Now, you answer me fast or I'll blow your goddamn nose backwards for you!

  Scooter : Well, he took the truck.

  Rudi Volpone : What truck?

  Scooter : The Honey Dew truck. He said there was a new route up north.

  Rudi Volpone : Which way did they go?

  Scooter : North on route 248, you ain't five minutes behind them.

  Rudi Volpone : Okay, Scooter. Now, if you plan to blow the candles out on your next birthday cake, you forget you ever saw me here, you understand?

  Scooter : You're a complete stranger as far as I'm concerned.

• Carl : Why do you want to turn left for, Rudi?

  Rudi Volpone : Because Hunnicutt is gonna try to get out of the state!

  Carl : Well, how do you figure that? If it was me trying to run from the hit, I'd try and stay on the roads that I knew.

  Rudi Volpone : [scoffs]  I need a hit man, they send me one that watches Captain Kangaroo.

  Carl : [offended]  You trying to get cute or something, Rudi?

  Rudi Volpone : No, I'm trying to tell you I make the goddamn decisions here!

• Rudi Volpone : Well, we can't be too far ahead of them.

  Carl : We'd better not be. Uncle Angie is gonna be real pissed if we blow this one, Rudi.

  Rudi Volpone : Look, Carl, nobody's blowing nothing. So, just cool it and think positive like Norman Vincent Peale.

  Carl : Who?

  Rudi Volpone : The guy with the correspondence course. You mean you never heard of him?

  Carl : No.

  Rudi Volpone : He was very famous in the mind racket and - Oh, what the hell am I explaining it to you for?

• Ralph Junior Hunnicutt : [Rudi spits out moonshine from a Honey Dew soda bottle]  You like it, huh?

  Rudi Volpone : Tastes like chicken livers.