H.W. Plainview: How much are we gonna pay them?
Plainview: Who's that?
H.W. Plainview: Sunday family.
Plainview: Well, I'm not gonna give them oil prices. I'll give them quail prices.
Plainview: I'm gonna bury you underground, Eli.
Eli Sunday: Things go up, things go down, but at least the Lord is always around.
Eli Sunday: I am a false prophet God is a superstition.
Plainview: What would you like, Eli?
Eli Sunday: Ten thousand dollars.
Plainview: For what?
Eli Sunday: For my church.
Plainview: That's good. That's a good one.
Plainview: What's this? Why don't I own this? Why don't I own this?
Al Rose: That's the Bandy tract. He was the holdout, when we were doing the buying? He had hoped to speak with you. Can't you just build the pipeline around this tract?
Plainview: Can I build around fifty miles of Tehachapi Mountains? Don't be thick in front of me, Al.
Al Rose: I can go to him again.
Plainview: No, I'll go and talk to the man. I'll talk to him, show you how it's done.
Plainview: Now go. Go and play some more, and don't come back.
Plainview: There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me.
H.M. Tilford: How's your boy?
Plainview: Thank you for asking.
H.M. Tilford: Is there anything we can do?
Plainview: "Thanks for asking" is enough.
Prescott: We gain nothing by losing our heads.
Chosen answer: Daniel Day-Lewis based his voice for and characterization of Daniel Plainview in part on old recordings of the director, writer, and actor John Huston. An article by Christopher Goodwin in the Sunday Times (of London) revealed Paul Thomas Anderson sent Day-Lewis documentaries about Huston while Day-Lewis was preparing to play the role.
Cnyvek
Just watched it. Sounds exactly like Huston in Chinatown.