The Best Anton Chigurh Quotes

Anton: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
Gas: Sir?
Anton: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.
Gas: I don't know. I couldn't say.
[Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]
Anton: Call it.
Gas: Call it?
Anton: Yes.
Gas: For what?
Anton: Just call it.
Gas: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.
Anton: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.
Gas: I didn't put nothin' up.
Anton: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?
Gas: No.
Anton: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.
Gas: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
Anton: Everything.
Gas: How's that?
Anton: You stand to win everything. Call it.
Gas: Alright. Heads then.
[Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]
Anton: Well done.
[the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]
Anton: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.
Gas: Where do you want me to put it?
Anton: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.
[Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out]

Carla: You don't have to do this.
Anton: [smiles] People always say the same thing.
Carla: What do they say?
Anton: They say, "You don't have to do this."
Carla: You don't.
Anton: Okay.
[Chigurh flips a coin and covers it with his hand]
Anton: This is the best I can do. Call it.
Carla: I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
Anton: Call it.
Carla: No. I ain't gonna call it.
Anton: Call it.
Carla: The coin don't have no say. It's just you.
Anton: Well, I got here the same way the coin did.

[Anton has just shot the Man who hires Wells in the throat, and is standing over his body]
[to Nervous Accountant]
Anton: Who are you?
Nervous: Me?
Anton: Yes.
Nervous: Nobody... accounting.
Anton: He gave the Mexicans a receiver.
[Anton sighs]
Nervous: He feels... he felt that the more people looking... .
[cut-off by Anton]
Anton: That's foolish. You pick the one right tool.
Nervous: I see. Are you going to shoot me?
Anton: That depends. Do you see me?

Anton: [indicating bag of cashews] How much?
Gas: Sixty-nine cent.
Anton: This. And the gas.
Gas: Y'all gettin' any rain up your way?
Anton: What way would that be?
Gas: I seen you was from Dallas.
Anton: What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
Gas: I didn't mean nothin' by it.
Anton: Didn't mean nothin'.
Gas: I was just passin' the time. If you don't wanna accept that I don't know what else to do for you. Will there be something else?
Anton: I don't know. Will there?
Gas: Is somethin' wrong?
Anton: With what?
Gas: With anything?
Anton: Is that what you're asking me? Is there something wrong with anything?
Gas: Will there be anything else?
Anton: You already asked me that.
Gas: Well... I need to see about closin'.
Anton: See about closing.
Gas: Yessir.
Anton: What time do you close?
Gas: Now. We close now.
Anton: Now is not a time. What time do you close?

Anton: I'm looking for Llewelyn Moss.
Desert: Did you go up to his trailer?
Anton: Yes, I did.
Desert: Well, I'd say he's at work. Do you want to leave a message?
Anton: Where does he work?
Desert: I can't say.
Anton: Where does he work?
Desert: Sir, I ain't at liberty to give out no information about our residents.
Anton: Where does he work?
Desert: Did you not hear me? We can't give out no information.

Anton: Would you hold still, please, sir?

Anton: And you know what's going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it.
Carson: You go to hell.
Anton: [Chuckles] Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Carson: Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
Anton: You mean the nature of this conversation?
Carson: I mean the nature of you.

Llewelyn: [talking over phone] Hello?
Anton: Yes?
Llewelyn: Is, uh, Carson Wells there?
Anton: Not in the sense that you mean. You need to come see me.
Llewelyn: Who is this?
Anton: You know who it is. You need to talk to me.
Llewelyn: I don't need to talk to you.
Anton: I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?
Llewelyn: Why would I care where you're going?
Anton: I know where you are.
Llewelyn: Yeah? Where am I?
Anton: You're in the hospital across the river, but that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going?
Llewelyn: [blood flows on the floor, and so Chigurh lifts his feet and rests them on the bed] Yeah, I know where you're going.
Anton: Alright.
Llewelyn: You know she won't be there.
Anton: It doesn't make any difference where she is.
Llewelyn: So what are you going up there for?
Anton: You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?
Llewelyn: Nope.
Anton: I think you do. So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.