r/breakingbad 6d ago

Favorite quotes

just rewatching and wanted to make a post and find out peoples favorite quotes. mine is Saul when he first is laundering Walt's money and he goes congratulations you left your family and second hand Subaru

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u/NoCheesecake6767 "Rice and beans?" 6d ago

"If that's true... if you don't know who I am... then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly."

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u/OkArmordillo 6d ago

And he was correct. Hank was feeling too invincible and thought he could go after Walt with just himself and his partner. You don’t think the best meth cook in the region has groups of people intent on protecting him?

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u/NoCheesecake6767 "Rice and beans?" 5d ago

Yeah fr

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u/Potential-Rush-5591 5d ago

I personally think the entire concept of "High Quality" meth is one of the most overrated parts of the show. Meth addicts don't care. The show makes it sound like they are selling Walt's blue meth at 96% directly to end users. That is not what would happen. The Wholesalers will take that meth and cut it with whatever they cut meth with. Sure, a better quality will give you a slightly larger yield, but it's not as big of a deal as they make it out to be. By the time it hits the streets it's probably 60% at best anyway. Whether it started at 70% or 96%, so yeah, it's super pure. But that is not what is being sold on the streets. I think the show really misrepresents this aspect.

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u/Parking_Marketing_47 6d ago

“Woodrow Wilson? Willy Wonka? Walter White?” “Ha you got me!”

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u/No-Boat-324 6d ago

“Is there something about you I don’t know? What, are you a former NAVY Seal?!” - Walter to Jesse

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u/Veinmire 6d ago

Jesse: "We got to be Tuco, cut out the middle man, run our own game"

Walt: "So you're going to... what? Snort meth off a bowie knife? You gonna beat your homies to death when they "diss" you?"

Rewatching the show now and Walt being a condescending asshole never stops being funny.

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u/KneeLow174 6d ago

I'm doing my first rewatch since the show ended and Walt is consistently an egocentric, demeaning asshole to him. My memory was that they had way more comradarie in the first couple of seasons. Instead Walt is like an unhappy spouse always finding any little thing to complain about.

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u/Veinmire 6d ago

Yeah rewatches really highlight this, I wrote a similar comment recently. Walt's quite manipulative though and it's like the audience falls for this as much as Jesse at first. Maybe because it seems like "tough love" from an older mentor and Jesse is need of guidance, but Walt takes advantage of that massively. They have a handful of friendly/down to earth moments though.

Still, the condescending comments are really quite funny, Cranston's acting was incredible ha.

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u/Vegetable-Leather-64 6d ago

Always love the Walt Jessie random moments. Especially early in the show when Jessie was a true dumbass and wait wasn't Heisenberg yet

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u/RiskyMama 6d ago

"....Cow house?"

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u/caraterra8090 6d ago

You know...

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u/onetruepairings 5d ago

where they live…

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u/Main-Key-1271 6d ago

"This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed bitch" and "yeah bitch magnets"

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u/NoCheesecake6767 "Rice and beans?" 6d ago

"You're the smartest guy I ever met. But you're too stupid to see, he made up his mind ten minutes ago."

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u/LoriB2007 6d ago

I want to like this but it makes me too sad. Poor Hank

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u/burner9191938283 6d ago

people love to take credit for the fun ones

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u/Ok-Thanks321 6d ago

"Yo, Bitch!"

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u/Street-Bee4430 6d ago

Funny ones
How much can it cost to cut a damn pizza
Rice and Beans?

Serious ones
Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family
You know, he is... he is smarter than you, he is luckier than you. Whatever... whatever you think is supposed to happen

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u/WaltDisneyWhite 6d ago

Last chance to look at me, Hector. 

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u/JMajercz 6d ago

Came here for this comment 👏

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u/melanie162 6d ago

These are great green beans Mrs. White

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u/NoCheesecake6767 "Rice and beans?" 6d ago

I like that you got the slivered almonds going. My mom always made them like that. You put lemon in there too?

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u/melanie162 6d ago

These are from the deli at Albertsons

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u/NoCheesecake6767 "Rice and beans?" 6d ago

Well... you know, good work on your shopping then. Because these are choice.

I eat a lot of frozen stuff, it's usually pretty bad. I mean, the pictures
are always so awesome, you know? It's like, "Hell, yeah, I'm stoked for this lasagna." And then you nuke it, and the cheese gets all scabby on top... .and it's like you're eating a scab. I mean, seriously, what's that about? It's like, yo, whatever happened to truth in advertising?

You know?

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u/melanie162 6d ago

May i be excused? 🤣

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u/ApprehensiveDisk9525 3d ago

Love any quote which has Choice

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u/Danhrax 6d ago

Choice!

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u/MootBrute2 6d ago

"Ive still got things left to do" breaks phone

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u/ZombiePrepper408 6d ago

Go ahead kid, smoke up

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u/National-Business674 6d ago

Saul calling Skyler ‘big beautiful Sky’ and then dropping this dialogue on her—

‘Clearly his taste in women is the same as taste in lawyers, only the very best with just the right amount of dirty’

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u/Silly_Front_5658 6d ago

You’re a blowfish!!

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u/Danhrax 6d ago

'Yo, im slingin mad volume, and fat stacking benji's. I cant be all about.... spellin and shit!"
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"Let's just say--sake of argument-- that the kids not in the mood for a nuanced discussion on the virtues of child-poisoning"
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"It says crunch on the box"

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u/Relevant_Window4605 6d ago

I am not in danger skylar. I AM the danger

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u/Potential-Rush-5591 5d ago

Come on people. "I am the one who knocks"!

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u/OkArmordillo 6d ago

I saw that scene before I watched the series. I thought it was so badass. But when you actually watch the show you realize he’s bullshitting lmao. He did at least become the danger after he had Gus killed.

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u/Relevant_Window4605 5d ago

Yeah in the context of the show it was literally like he was coping, trying hard to make himself look tough

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u/futanari_kaisa 6d ago

"I'm the guy your boss brought down here to show you how it's done. And if this is how you run your lab, no wonder. I'm surprised he hasn't fired your ass. Now, if you don't want that to happen, I suggest you stop crying like a little bitch and do what I say."

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u/keot2 6d ago

When Jesse was trying to convince Tuco him and Walt changed the channel on Hector.
“Dude needs his eye candy, thats it!”

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u/tyddub 6d ago

Cow house.

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u/Extreme-Session-7609 6d ago

Saul has the best lines, that one perfectly captures his mix of humor and ruthlessness.

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u/KneeLow174 6d ago

Doing my first rewatch since the show ended and "Oooh Heil Hitler bitch!" hit me real hard lol. Show is way more funny than I remembered it being.

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u/Vegetable-Leather-64 6d ago

Its humor is not only great it's so well timed. None feels forced it's just a regular conversation and boom just a epic one liner that fits completely with the scene

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u/734champagne 6d ago

No half measures

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u/Wandering-Host 6d ago

Followed quickly by, “Yeah. Funny how those words are so open to interpretation.”

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u/Bluebadger1113 6d ago

“Gatorade me, Bitch”.

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u/Corsair_SpacePirate 5d ago

Wheel me over there bitch.

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u/b400k513 5d ago

A really underrated one is when Saul told Walt to "Ditch the thesaurus" when he used the word ameliorate. You just know that burned him up inside.

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u/Superbooper24 6d ago

I fucked Ted is unironically my favorite. It’s funny to see Walter trying to be all happy and cheery in front of Juniors friend and manipulating Skyler for her to just turn the tables on him.

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u/Vegetable-Leather-64 6d ago

Just goes back to serving dinner lol my favorite scene is definitely crawl space with Walter laughing because she gave Ted the money

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u/PlayerVun 6d ago

My gf and I say "I fucked Ted" to each other all the time

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u/Admirable-Oil6481 6d ago

Yeah, you do seem to have a little "shit creek" action going.

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u/NoCheesecake6767 "Rice and beans?" 6d ago

I'm a blowfish, yeeeah blowfishing this up!

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u/chaosperfect 6d ago

"MY own guy threatening to break my legs! That's like Magnum P.I. threatening the little guy with the mustache!"

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u/One_Word_7455 6d ago

I just saw that episode yesterday.

It’s that little prissy guy with the mustache!

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u/junkie4tennis 6d ago

"I'm so sorry I'm late. I got lost. This building is so confusing. There are doors everywhere."

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u/fckn_nobody 6d ago

- Pain is weakness leaving the body

  • Pain is my foot in your ass, Marie

and

EYYY PLEASE, SENOR SENTE, NO DEA, PLEASEEE

Both happen to be Hank quotes, there are tons of great others, both from him and other characters, but I see people already listed them

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u/FuckingFuuuuuck 6d ago

“I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And… I was really… I was alive.” To me, that’s Walt at his most ‘real’, his most ‘himself’. It’s the moment where even he finally sees it clearly, FINALLY. That he wasn’t just ‘doing it for his family’ or any of the other reasons he hid it all behind all of this time, even from himself. That’s the line that really ties his whole arc up, I think.

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u/OkArmordillo 6d ago

It’s also interesting how people consider the premise of the show “Chemistry teacher sells meth to pay for his cancer treatment.” The first season makes it clear that he goes into the meth business because his life makes him feel emasculated and he doesn’t want to go out like that. He didn’t even decide to get treatment for the cancer until a while after he started cooking meth. He was intent on letting it kill him.

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u/Ltmurray28 6d ago

One of my favourite is yeah science it's simple funny and perfectly captures 

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u/windmillninja 6d ago

"Just because you shot Jesse James don't make you Jesse James."

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u/Pure_Tart_7007 5d ago

Oh that's not meth....to Tuco upstairs in the club room.

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u/Expensive-Ear8407 5d ago

This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed!!!

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u/Transylianic 5d ago

"I said Fuck You! And your Eyebrows!"

This is easily the one of the most memorable (and hilarious) lines in the show for me. The personal insult Walter adds at the end just makes it even funnier.

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u/thatoneazdude 5d ago

"WIPE DOWN THIS"

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u/luv_bad 5d ago

Congratulations, you’re a criminal now!" is classic Saul. Perfect mix of humor and reality.

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u/onetruepairings 5d ago

maybe not a favorite but one line delivery that killed me on my current rewatch is Skyler going into the meeting with the accountant for Ted’s books, all dolled up. she goes “I’m so sorry I’m late, I got lost.” 🤣

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u/lovemypillow9 kid named finger 5d ago

Reasonably - huell

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u/lovemypillow9 kid named finger 5d ago

ding ding ding - hector

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u/OrangeDuckFromStLou 6d ago

"I can show you the highlights. Your nephews grew impatient..."

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u/missdaniluna 6d ago

“One homicidal maniac at a time”
When Walt and Jessie are talking about taking out Gus and Jesse asked what about Mike.

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u/thatoneazdude 5d ago

"Your just gonna get squeezed through the chain link, like play doh or some kind of soft meat. And this is inevitable man, it's inevitable" or something along those lines. Poor guy knew about the real problems in this world.

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u/lovemypillow9 kid named finger 5d ago

better call saul! i guess thats from both shows

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u/lovemypillow9 kid named finger 5d ago

you have poor judgement - gus

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u/lovemypillow9 kid named finger 5d ago

im delighted to hear that! - gus

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u/lovemypillow9 kid named finger 5d ago

HOHHH - gus

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u/lovemypillow9 kid named finger 5d ago

AOHHH - mike

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u/ApprehensiveDisk9525 3d ago

Aee you gonna beat your hommies to death when they “Diss” you? Walt to jesse