Barry Corbin

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God dammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good. Let the boy in there major!

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By: Barry Corbin
Characters: General Beringer
From: WarGames

Context:
Barry Corbin as General Beringer said this to skeptical colleagues who were preventing computer hacker Matthew Broderick from trying to shut down an A.I.-enhanced computer system in John Badham's 1983 film WarGames. The system - called "WOPR," short for War Operation Plan Response - was based at a NORAD command center in Washington State and was attempting to start Global Thermonuclear War as part of a computer simulation gone wrong.

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Well all the time ya spend tryin' to get back what's been took from ya, more is goin' out the door.

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By: Barry Corbin
Characters: Ellis
From: No Country for Old Men

Context:
Ellis, played by actor Barry Corbin in No Country for Old Men (2007). Ellis was speaking to Sherrif Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), who asked what Ellis would have done if the man who had shot him and put him a wheelchair, had been released from prison. The jailed man had just died in prison.