Daniel Plainview Quotes

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw, there it is. That’s the straw, you see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up![to Eli]

What are you looking so miserable about? There’s a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me.[to Fletcher]

There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone.[to Henry]

Out of all men that beg for a chance to drill your lots, maybe one in twenty will be oilmen; the rest will be speculators.

Just because there’s something on the ground doesn’t mean there’s anything beneath it.[to Paul]

I should have seen this coming. I should have known that, under this all, these past years you’ve been building new hate for me, piece by piece. I don’t even know who you are because you have none of me in you. You’re someone else’s. This anger. Your maliciousness. Backwards dealings with me. You’re an orphan from a basket in the middle of the desert. And I took you for no other reason than I needed a sweet face to buy land.[to HW]

I see the worst in people. I don’t need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I’ve built up my hatreds over the years, little by little.[to Henry]

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, no matter what the others promise to do, when it comes to the showdown, they won’t be there.

Family means children, and children means education. So, wherever we set up camp, education is a necessity, and we’re just so happy to take care of that.

Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation! I am who the Lord has chosen!