Thelma and Louise
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Louise: Look, Thelma, you just gotta stop talking to people. You gotta stop being so open. We're fugitives now, all right? Let's start behaving like that.

Thelma: I know it's crazy, but I just feel like I got a knack for this shit.
Louise: I believe you do.

Louise: Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.

Louise: Well, you get what you settle for.

Max: Uh, yeah, well, if she calls, just be gentle. You know, like, you're really happy to hear from her. Like you really miss her. Women love that shit.

Lena, the Waitress: Neither of those two was the murdering type, Hal.

Thelma: I had a suggestion that we go to the police, but you didn't like that, so frankly, Louise, I'm out of ideas.
Louise: Well, what's the big rush, Thelma? I mean, if we give 'em enough time, they'll come to us.

Thelma: Come on, Louise. Don't blow it.

Louise: Is he your husband or your father?

Louise: Oh, darlin', I'm so happy for you. That's great. I really am. You finally got laid properly. That's so sweet.

Louise: Tell him you're having a wonderful time and you'll be home tomorrow night.
Thelma: Will I be?
Louise: I don't know. I won't.

Max: You know, the one thing I can't figure out is whether these girls are real smart or just real, real lucky?
Hal: Don't matter. Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.

Louise: Yeah, where do you get off behaving like that with women you don't even know? Huh? Huh? How'd you feel if someone did that to your mother? Or your sister? Or your wife?

Louise: In the future, when a woman's crying like that, she isn't having any fun.

Thelma: We're running for our lives - can't you make an exception?

Louise: I'm in deep shit, Jimmy. Deep Shit, Arkansas.

Louise: You know, certain words and phrases just keep drifting through my mind. Things like, incarceration, cavity search, death by electrocution, life imprisonment, shit like that. You know what I'm sayin'? So do I want to come out alive? I don't know. I... I don't know. I think we're gonna have to think about that.

Louise: You let her go, you fuckin' asshole, or I'm gonna splatter your ugly face all over this nice car.

Thelma: I don't remember ever feeling this awake.

J.D.: Well, now, I've always believed that done properly, armed robbery doesn't have to be a totally unpleasant experience.

Continuity mistake: At the western bar Louise is drinking a margarita. As the shot goes back and forth between Thelma & Louise, the contents of the drink magically decrease and increase again. The level of Thelma's coke rises as well, when Harlan leaves them. (00:14:00)

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Trivia: During the scene when Thelma decides to join Louise and flee to Mexico, the song playing in the background is "La Adelita", which is a tune dating from the Mexican Revolution celebrating women who fought alongside the men in battle.

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Question: Can anyone tell me what film the policemen are watching when they are in Thelma's husband's apartment and he wants to switch to the sports-game?

Answer: It's the 1941 film "Penny Serenade".

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