Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from True West.
Family Quotes
Austin: So, you went out to see the old man, huh? (1.1.65)
Competition Quotes
Lee: You may not know it but I did a little art myself once. I fooled around with it. No future in it. (1.1.59-60)
Violence Quotes
(LEE suddenly lunges at AUSTIN, grabs him violently by the shirt and shakes him with tremendous power) (1.1.137-138)
Criminality Quotes
Lee: Yeah. Houses. Electric devices. Stuff like that. I gotta' make a little tour first. (1.1.98-99)
Transformation Quotes
Lee: That's right. He's not gonna change but I will. I'll just turn myself right inside out. (1.4.206-207)
Freedom and Confinement Quotes
Lee: Those are the most monotonous f***in' crickets I ever heard in my life. (1.1.148-149)
Power Quotes
Lee: Then I'll just take the damn thing. (1.1.132)
Quotes
Lee: Isn't that what they did? Candlelight burning into the night? Cabins and wilderness. (1.1.42)