Jack: The hair of the dog that bit him.Sadie: Hair? He must have swallowed the dog.To their surprise, Willie develops his own fighting style and delivers a rousing, memorable speech - after tossing away his prepared speech.He was the deadbeat and irresponsible father who had abandoned his pregnant girlfriend.As he turned and reached for a rolled-up piece of paper behind the photo, he carelessly and accidentally struck the photo, sending it tumbling down from the mantlepiece into a burning charcoal fire." (In another smoking room, Muggsy is losing many card games to Gerald.) Col.Harrington and Jean allow Charles o win and insist that they were playing for money: "But we always play for money, darling.He explains pain-avoidance to her:Mrs.Pilletti (serving dinner): So, what are you gonna do tonight Marty?Marty: I don""t know, Ma.I""m all knocked out.I may just hang around he house.Mrs.Pilletti: Why don""t you go to the Stardust Ballroom?Marty: What?Mrs.Pilletti: I say, why don""t you go to the Stardust Ballroom? It""s loaded with tomatoes.Marty: It""s loaded with what?Mrs.Pilletti: Tomatoes.Marty: (laughs) Who told you about the Stardust Ballroom, Ma?Mrs.Pilletti: Tommy.[Tommy is Marty""s married cousin.] He say it was a very nice place.Marty: Oh, Thomas.Ma, it""s just a big dance hall, that""s all it is.I been there a hundred times.Loaded with tomatoes - boy, you""re funny, Ma.Mrs.Pilletti: Marty, I don""t want you to hang around the house tonight.I want you to go take a shave and go dance.Marty: (pleading) Ma, when you gonna give up? You got a bachelor on your hands.I ain""t never gonna get married.Mrs.Pilletti: You""re gonna get married.Marty: Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man""s life when he""s gotta face some facts.And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain""t got it.I chased after enough girls in my life.I-I went to enough dances.I got hurt enough.I don""t wanna get hurt no more.I just called up a girl this afternoon, and I got a real brush-off, boy! I figured I was past the point of being hurt, but that hurt.His crude nature was described in the film""s tagline:The Man With the Barbed Wire Soul!Plot SynopsisHud is an anti-hero - he is therefore selfish, cocky, amoral, unscrupulous, crude, hard-drinking, irresponsible, and hedonistic, and known as a "Cadillac cowboy.