John Coffey: I'm smellin' me some cornbread. Paul Edgecomb: It's from my mises. She wanted to thank you. John Coffey: Thank me for what? Paul Edgecomb: Well, you know... [whispering] Paul Edgecomb: For a helping me. John Coffey: Helping you with what...
Paul Edgecomb: We'll be doing this for real tomorrow night and I don't want nobody to remember some stupid joke like that and get it going again. You ever try to not to laugh in church when something funny gets stuck in your head? Same goddamn thing.
Eduard Delacroix: [In the electric chair, about to be executed] Don't forgot about Mouseville. [Paul nods and smiles] Percy Wetmore: [whispering] Hey! [Del looks at Percy] Percy Wetmore: There's no such place! [Paul and Brutus exchange appalled looks...
Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? You want me to let you run out of here, see how far you can get? John Coffey: Why would you do such a foolish thing? Paul Edgecomb: On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why ...
Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [Brutal gets his first look at John Coffey, before Paul] He's enormous! Paul Edgecomb: [smirks] Can't be bigger than you! [both snicker]
Brutus "Brutal" Howell: He's chokin'. Whatever he sucked out of her, he's choking on!
Paul Edgecomb: I wanna hear about this new inmate, aside from how big he is! Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Monstrous big!
Eduard Delacroix: [after Coffey shares his cornbread with Del] I thank you. Mr. Jingles thank you, my mom would thank you too but she's dead.
Paul Edgecomb: We all know who your connections are, Percy. You ever threaten a man on this block again we're all gonna have a go. The job be damned. Percy Wetmore: You done? Paul Edgecomb: Get all this shit back in the restraining room; you are clut...
Paul Edgecomb: Toot, one more remark like that I'll have Van Hay roll on two for real. And I'll have one less crazy old trustee in the world.
John Coffey: [singing as he's being strapped to the electric chair] Heaven, I'm in heaven... heaven... heaven...
Wild Bill Wharton: You love your sister? You make any noise, you know what happens. I'm gonna kill her instead of you. Understand?
Harry Terwilliger: Piss on ME? [he sprays Wild Bill with a fire hose]
Melinda Moores: [as John Coffey approaches her bed] Pig fucker!
Toot-Toot: This is a shocking experience!
William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [about to pass out from drugs] I don't see why white man has to sit in a nigger electric chair. White man should have his own damn electric chair.
Harry Terwilliger: [after Wild Bill causes havoc and nearly kills Dean] We thought he was doped. Didn't we all think we was doped? Paul Edgecomb: You didn't ask? [Terwilliger shakes his head] Paul Edgecomb: Well I don't think that's a mistake you'll ...
Hal: It's a tumor, Paul. A brain tumor. [pause] Hal: They got X-ray pictures of it. The size of a lemon, they said... way deep down inside where they can't operate. [pause] Hal: I haven't told her. I can't think of how. [he starts crying] Hal: For th...
