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Frank Costello4 quotes
I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. — Frank Costello · 2006You learn a lot watching things eat. — Frank Costello · 2006When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank Costello · 2006No one gives it to ya, you have to take it. — Frank Costello · 2006Harry Callahan4 quotes
Go ahead, make my day. — Harry Callahan · 1983You're a legend in your own mind. — Harry Callahan · 1983Everybody wants results but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done. — Harry Callahan · 1983Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful with a dog shits ya! — Harry Callahan · 1983Brandon3 quotes
I've always wished for more artistic talent. Well, murder can be an art, too. The power to kill can be just as satisfying as the power to create. — Brandon · 1948Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — Brandon · 1948It's the darkness that's got you down. Nobody feels really safe in the dark. — Brandon · 1948Dr. Hannibal Lecter3 quotes
I do wish we could chat longer but...I'm having an old friend for dinner. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. — Dr. Hannibal Lecter · 1991Ed Tom Bell3 quotes
Age will flatten a man. — Ed Tom Bell · 2007The point bein' even in the contest between man and steer, the issue is not certain. — Ed Tom Bell · 2007I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come into my life somehow and he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does. — Ed Tom Bell · 2007Leonard3 quotes
I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different. — Leonard · 2000I can't remember to forget you. — Leonard · 2000No, no, really! Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate. I know. It's what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation. They're not a record. They're irrelevant if you have the facts. — Leonard · 2000Verbal3 quotes
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. — Verbal · 1995How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss? — Verbal · 1995Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well, I believe in God and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze. — Verbal · 1995Alonzo2 quotes
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove. — Alonzo · 2001To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. — Alonzo · 2001Bryan Mills2 quotes
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. — Bryan Mills · 2008That is what happens when you sit behind a desk. You forget things, like the weight in the hand of a gun that's loaded and one that's not. — Bryan Mills · 2008Dan2 quotes
This is what defeat looks like, bro. Your jihad is over. — Dan · 2012It's cool, that you're strong and I respect it, I do. In the end, everybody breaks, bro. It's biology. — Dan · 2012Dirty Harry Callahan2 quotes
You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? — Dirty Harry Callahan · 1971I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? — Dirty Harry Callahan · 1971Hunter2 quotes
Yes, the purpose of war is to serve a political end, but the true nature of war is to serve itself. — Hunter · 1995In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself. — Hunter · 1995James Bond2 quotes
Just a drink. A martini, shaken, not stirred. — James Bond · 1964Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something. — James Bond · 1963Jim Garrison2 quotes
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. — Jim Garrison · 1991Going back to when we were children, I think most of us in this courtroom thought justice came into being automatically. That virtue was its own reward. That good would triumph over evil. But as we get older, we know this just isn't true. Individual human beings have to create justice, and this is not easy because the truth often poses a threat to power and one often has to fight power at great risk to themselves. — Jim Garrison · 1991Nino Brown2 quotes
Yo baby, we talkin' about combinating and consolidating, that's what up! — Nino Brown · 1991I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during the prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: Ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. I mean, not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way. — Nino Brown · 1991Sam (Ronin)2 quotes
I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of. — Sam (Ronin) · 1998All good things come to those who wait. — Sam (Ronin) · 1998Stanley Goodspeed2 quotes
You're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know. — Stanley Goodspeed · 1996I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast. — Stanley Goodspeed · 1996Cameron Poe1 quote
Sorry boss, but there's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other's not you. — Cameron Poe · 1997Capt. Bart Mancuso1 quote
The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch. — Capt. Bart Mancuso · 1990Captain Ellerby1 quote
You wanna smoke? You don't smoke do ya, what are you one of those fitness freaks? — Captain Ellerby · 2006Cole Sear1 quote
I see dead people. — Cole Sear · 1999Doug MacRay1 quote
No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done. — Doug MacRay · 2010Drew Ballinger1 quote
Goddamn, you play a mean banjo! — Drew Ballinger · 1972Fiona1 quote
Some men just don't like to be driven. — Fiona · 1965Hans Gruber1 quote
You know my name, but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon? — Hans Gruber · 1988Harry1 quote
Guts'll get you so far, then they'll get you killed. — Harry · 1994John McClane1 quote
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker. — John McClane · 1988John Patrick Mason1 quote
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. — John Patrick Mason · 1996Lewis (Deliverance)1 quote
Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game—survive. — Lewis (Deliverance) · 1972Mountain Man1 quote
What's the matter, boy? I bet you can squeal. I bet you can squeal like a pig. Let's squeal. Squeal now. Squeal. — Mountain Man · 1972