The Best Gas Station Proprietor 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]

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?