Plainview: I told you I would to eat you! Eli Sunday: [terrified] We're family! Plainview: I told you I would eat you up!
Plainview: There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me!
Plainview: I'm gonna bury you underground, Eli.
Plainview: [mumbles] Abandoned my child. Eli Sunday: Say it louder... say it louder! Plainview: I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my child! I've abandoned my boy! Eli Sunday: Now beg for the blood! Plainview: [sotto voce] Please, give me the bl...
Plainview: What's this? Why don't I own this? Why don't I own this? Al Rose: That's the Bandy tract. He was the holdout, when we were doing the buying? He had hoped to speak with you. Can't you just build the pipeline around this tract? Plainview: Ca...
Fletcher Hamilton: H.W. okay? Plainview: No, he isn't.
Eli Sunday: You are a stupid man, Abel. You've let someone come in here and walk all over us. You let him in and do his work here, and you are a stupid man for what we could have had. Abel Sunday: I followed His word, Eli. I tried. Eli Sunday: You di...
Plainview: Now go. Go and play some more, and don't come back.
Eli Sunday: Oh, Daniel... Oh, Daniel... please... I-I-I'm in... I'm in desperate times. Plainview: I know. Eli Sunday: I need a friend. Plainview: Yes, of course you do. Eli Sunday: I've sinned! I need help! I'm a sinner! I've let the Devil grab hold...
Prescott: [Plainview has just left a town meeting] Mr. Plainview! No! Where are you going? Plainview: I don't need the lease, thank you. Prescott: We need you, we need you to... Plainview: Too much confusion! Thank you for your time. Prescott: No, no...
H.W. Plainview: How much are we gonna pay them? Plainview: Who's that? H.W. Plainview: Sunday family. Plainview: Well, I'm not gonna give them oil prices. I'll give them quail prices.
Plainview: There's that house in Fond Du Lac that, uh, John Hollister built. Do you remember it? Henry Brands: Mmm. Plainview: I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen, and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it,...
Plainview: [Daniel, suspicious of Henry, aims a gun at him] I want you to tell me something. Henry Brands: What? Plainview: What's the name of the farm next to the Hill house? What was the name of the farm next to the Hill House? Henry Brands: I... I...
Eli Sunday: Things go up, things go down, but at least the Lord is always around.
Henry Brands: I'm your brother... from another mother.
Gene Blaize: You boys are a regular family business.
Eli Sunday: When do we get our money, Daniel? [Daniel slaps Eli across the face] Plainview: [continuing to slap Eli] Aren't you a healer and a vessel for the holy spirit? When are you coming over and make my son hear again? Can't you do that?
Plainview: I want you to look over there. [points towards H.W] H.M. Tilford: Daniel, let me introduce you... Plainview: Look over there. You see? That's my son. You see him? H.M. Tilford: Yes. Plainview: You SEE? H.M. Tilford: I see him. Plainview: Y...
