David Morse credited as playing...
Brutus 'Brutal' Howell
- John Coffey: There's lotsa people here that hate me, lots. I can feel it. It's like bees stingin' me.
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Well, feel how we feel then. We don't hate you. Can you feel that?
- Percy Wetmore: [after finding Mr. Jingles alive after he steps on him] You switched 'em. You switched 'em somehow, you bastards.
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Yeah I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this.
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Well, there must be something we can do for you, John. There must be something we can do that you want.
- John Coffey: [pauses] I ain't never seen me a flicker show.
- Paul Edgecomb: John, do you know where we're taking you?
- John Coffey: Help a lady?
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: That's right. But how do you know?
- John Coffey: Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much'o anything.
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [a rehearsal execution] Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before the sentence is carried out?
- Toot-Toot: [gleefully] Yeah! I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have Mae West sit on my face, because I am one horny motherfucker!
- Dean Stanton: What did you do?
- John Coffey: I helped Del's mouse become a circus mouse. Gonna live in a mouse city. Down in...
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Florida?
- John Coffey: [John nods] Boss, Percy bad. He mean. He stepped on Del's mouse. I took it back though.
- Percy Wetmore: [while tapping Arlen's burned face after being electrocuted] Adios, Chief! Drop us a card from Hell, let us know if it's hot enough...
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [Brutus grabs Percy's arm and pushes him away from Arlen's body] He's paid what he's owed; he's square with the house again, so keep your goddamn hands off him!
- Paul Edgecomb: [whispers] Goddamn, the sponge is dry!
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Well, don't you stop it! Don't you do it. It's too late for that.
- Paul Edgecomb: [to Dean Stanton who is standing in the doorway with a broom] You let him get past you.
- Dean Stanton: No, I did not.
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Three grown men... outsmarted by a mouse.
- Paul Edgecomb: I wanna hear about this new inmate, aside from how big he is!
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Monstrous big!
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [Brutal gets his first look at John Coffey, before Paul] He's enormous!
- Paul Edgecomb: [smirks] Can't be bigger than you!
- [both snicker]
- Paul Edgecomb: [while strapping him into a straitjacket] C'mon, Wild Bill, you're gonna walk your walk.
- Wild Bill Wharton: Don't you call me that! Wild Bill Hickok was no range rider! He was just another bushwackin' John Law! Dumb sonofabitch sat with his back to the door, kilt by a drunk!
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: Oh my suds and body, a history lesson! Boy, you just never know just what your gonna get when you come to work everyday on the Green Mile.
- Paul Edgecomb: John, do you know where we're taking you?
- John Coffey: Help a lady?
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: That's right. But how do you know?
- John Coffey: Don't know. To tell the truth, Boss, I don't know much o' anything.
- William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [Brutus Howell hands out cold sodas to the other guards] Hey, hey, I'm gonna get some too, ain't I?
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: My ass you get some too.
- Paul Edgecomb: What makes you think you deserve any?
- William 'Wild Bill' Wharton: [mutters] 'Cause I got a big pecker...
- Paul Edgecomb: [after Delacroix's body burst into flames after deliberately sabotaging his execution, Percy looks away in shock. Paul forces him to look at his actions] You watch, you son of a bitch!
- Hal: It's all right, folks! It's all under control!
- Paul Edgecomb: Kill it!
- [Dean cuts off the electricity]
- Brutus "Brutal" Howell: [Percy is being handed a fire extinguisher by Brutal, contemptuously] You do it! You're running this show, ain't you?
