Gene Hackman movie quotes

View Quote I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield. I'm talking about taking it out and chopping it up.

View Quote C'mon, Lets shag ass!

View Quote Goddammit, that's the last time you stick a knife in me! You hear me?

View Quote Yeah, horses're fascinating animals. Dumb as fenceposts but very intuitive. In that way they're not too different from high school girls: they may not have a brain in their head but they do know all the boys want to **** 'em.

View Quote What'd you think, son? That I was just some crazy old coot, putting everyone in harm's way as I yelled "YEE-HA!"?

View Quote I expect and demand your very best. Anything less, you should have joined the Air Force.

View Quote Think of it. Three… count them, three supervillains! Each one with the powers of Superman! They'll need a contact here on Earth! Someone with the same wonderful contempt for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!

View Quote You were great in your day, Superman. But it just stands to reason! When it came time to cash in your chips, this old...diseased maniac would be your banker. Mind over muscle?

View Quote "Funny" is a person trying to smile without any teeth.

View Quote Stick with your man. Think of him as chewing gum. By the end of the game, I want you to know what flavor he is.

View Quote If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners.

View Quote Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team - no one more important that the other.

View Quote A real man admits his fears. That's what I'm asking you to do here tonight.

View Quote I look at you and I see two men: the man you are and the man you oughtta be. Someday those two men will meet, and it should make for one hell of a football player.

View Quote Listen up! This time tomorrow, the strike will be officially over. Now Dallas has made one grave mistake tonight. They haven't been afraid of you, and they should be, because you've got one powerful weapon working for you tonight: There is no tomorrow for you... and that makes you all VERY DANGEROUS PEOPLE!

View Quote I have to leave you now. No hard feelings. We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

View Quote You were great in your day, Superman. But it just stands to reason, when it came time to cash in your chips, this old "diseased maniac" would be your banker. Mind over muscle?

View Quote There's a strong streak of good in you, Superman. But then nobody's perfect...almost nobody.

View Quote [to an exhibitor] I build all my own equipment. Thank you.

View Quote It had nothin' to do with me, I mean, I just turned in the tapes...What they do with the tapes is their own business.

View Quote Oh God, what I have done. I have to destroy the tapes. It cannot happen again. The family was murdered because of me. Oh God, no protection. I can find them wherever they go, and I can hear them.

View Quote Colonel Cutter: Time stands still for no ant.
General Mandible: Sacrifice. To some, it is just a word. To others it is a code. What matters is the colony...He's willing to live for the colony...to fight for the colony... to die for the colony.

View Quote Ladybug: This tastes just like crap.
Beetle: Really? Let me try some. Hey, it is crap. Not bad.
Mosquito: What if, like, we're just these tiny things... and we're just, like, part of this whole other huge universe...that's, like, so big we don't even know it exists?
Ladybug: Man, that is so deep.
Bala : Excuse me. I guess you didn't recognize me. My name is Princess Bala. I've been traveling, and I'm all... schlumpy.
Chip: It's worse than I thought. They're Euro-trash.
Bala : Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Z: Well, maybe, then again, maybe not, and then again... yowch.
Bala : That's it. You're the guy from the bar.
Z: Shhh.
Queen: Bar? What bar?
Bala : I... danced with this guy at the bar the other night. He was just a worker, then.
Queen: What were you doing at a bar?
General Mandible: Precisely what I want to know.
Bala : No. This isn't about me. I mean, Look at this worker. Look what he's done.
Z: I think - I think you're thinking of someone else. After all, I am a soldier.
Bala : Exactly. You WERE a worker, but now you're a war hero.
Queen: He's a worker?
General Mandible: A worker danced with my fiance?
Z: F-fiance? Hey, w-wait a minute. Th-this is not how it looks. I-I can explain this... hey, SHE was the one making all the moves.
Bala : Don't you get it? I chose you because you were the most pathetic bug in the joint.
Z: You know, I was going to let you become a part of my most erotic fantasies, but now you can just write it off.
Bala : I've been kidnapped by the village idiot.
Z: Who's the bigger idiot? The idiot, or the idiot who gets kidnapped by the idiot?
Z: Let me ask you something - what made you come to the bar that night?
Bala : I guess I was looking for a little trouble.
Z: Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.
Weaver: Z, I've known you for a long time, right?
Z: Definitely; you were born two seconds after me.
Weaver: And ever since I've known you, all you do is complain; what are you bitching about? If you haven't noticed, us ants are runnin' the show. We're the lords of the Earth!
Z: Hey. Don't talk to me about "Earth", 'cause I just spent my day hauling it around.

View Quote General Mandible: [his first words] Workers. They're weak. They lack discipline. They lack commitment.
Foreman: [he comes in] General, I know there's been a glitch or two. But everybody is working full tilt as it is, and-
General Mandible: You can't help it, it's your nature. But in spite of your limitations, you are going to finish this tunnel on schedule. Come hell or high water. For now on, anyone who falls behind is going to have to explain themselves to Colonel Cutter. And let me assure you, the colonel is not as understanding as I am. Dismissed. Four more days, Cutter. Four more days. Then we can bid final farewell to their kind of incompetence.
Colonel Cutter: Yes, sir.
General Mandible: A fresh start. Imagine it!
Colonel Cutter: A strong colony, sir. A colony we can be proud of.
General Mandible: Yes, but we're not there yet. Cutter, we just got word that a termite army has mobilized against us.
Colonel Cutter: Against us?
General Mandible: We'll have to send troops deep into hostile territory to attack their colony.
Colonel Cutter: Attack a termite colony, sir? That's suicide.
General Mandible: Exactly. Do you have the list I asked for?
Colonel Cutter: Yes, General. [takes the list to General] These are the units loyal to the queen.
General Mandible: Hm. Then they're the ones we'll be sending. It's a shame. There's some fine officers here.
Colonel Cutter: Don't we need the queen's approval to declare war?
General Mandible: Our very next stop, Cutter.

View Quote Listen Delly, I know it doesn't make much sense when you're sixteen. Don't worry. When you get to be forty, it isn't any better.

View Quote You told me fairy tales... About Malone... Billy Danreuther... The President getting shot... Your erect nipples!

View Quote Ellen Moseby: [of a football game] Who's winning?
Harry Moseby: Nobody. One side is just losing slower than the other.

View Quote [about Jimmy] Young, dumb and full of ****.

View Quote What do you want me to do? Just pull up a chair while you rape me?

View Quote [of his wife, Fran] She could talk her way out of a sunburn.

View Quote So what resolution should we make for the new year? It's to let God know that you have the guts and the will to do it alone. Resolve to fight for yourselves, and for others, for those you love. And that part of God within you will be fighting with you all the way.

View Quote Please, God, not this woman. Not this woman.

View Quote [Appealing to the survivors in the ballroom]: I wanna appeal to you the last time. I know this much; the sea's gonna keep pouring in, we're gonna keep settling deeper and deeper, we may even go under before we get up to the bottom to cut our way out! But it's something to try, it's a chance, we might make it. You stay here, you'll certainly die!

View Quote Like I always say – put a fox in the henhouse and you'll have chicken for dinner every time.

View Quote You must be the fastest gun in the west. That or the biggest liar!

View Quote The rules say you have to accept every challenge. You got a problem with that, scuttle your butt out of town.

View Quote Now Ned, them whores are going to tell different lies than you. And when their lies ain't the same as your lies... Well, I ain't gonna hurt no woman. But I'm gonna hurt you. And not gentle like before... but bad.

View Quote [After Munny's gun doesn't go off] Misfire. Kill that son of a bitch.

View Quote [kicking English Bob] I guess you think I'm kicking you, Bob. But it ain't so. What I'm doing is talking, you hear? I'm talking to all those villains down there in Kansas. I'm talking to all those villains in Missouri. And all those villains down there in Cheyenne. And what I'm saying is there ain't no whore's gold. And if there was, how they wouldn't want to come looking for it anyhow.

View Quote Anyway, Murray has this shrink, who also happens to be Martin's personal trainer's shrink. Murray gives the shrink the script and the shrink gives it to Martin's trainer who reads it to Martin while they work out, and Martin flips. Loves it.

View Quote I produce feature motion pictures, no TV. You mentioned Grotesque? That happened to be Grotesque Part Two that Karen Flores was in. She starred in all three of my "Slime Creatures" releases you might have seen.

View Quote Man's in town two days, thinks he's David O. **** Selznick.

View Quote [to Deputy Pell] Make no mistake about it, Deputy. I'll cut your **** head clean off and not give a shit how it reads in the report sheet!

View Quote Ward: Just don't lose sight of whose rights are being violated!
Anderson: Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward.
Ward: Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson!
Anderson: These people are crawling out of the SEWER, MR. WARD! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be!

View Quote Anderson: You know, if I were a Negro, I'd probably think the same way they do.
Ward: If you were a Negro, nobody would give a damn what you thought.

View Quote I lost my package, a prisoner I was bringing back from Germany.

View Quote [to Col. Whitacre] You and I, we're in separate armies, pal - but you're out in the light now, and I'm gonna see you get stepped on!

View Quote Who the hell knows what is the truth and what is a lie?

View Quote Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries.

View Quote Everybody has a secret they don't want you to find. Find it!

View Quote Ah, I hate Baptists almost as much as I hate Democrats.

View Quote Lenny, I've always considered you the Dutch Elm disease in my family tree.

View Quote Lenny, let's try and keep your IQ a family secret.

View Quote [to Lenny] He gets his energy from the sun. Without it, he's like you at night - useless.

View Quote [to Mason] Do yourself a favor and take the rest of your life off. If I see you again ... I won't see you again.

View Quote [to Chris] A long time ago I worked for the CIA.

View Quote Walter Lloyd: I hope you're not going to fool around because I have a lot of things to do.
Donna Lloyd: You mean Miss Twinkle Tits in banking?

View Quote All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!

View Quote All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.

View Quote Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: You dumbass.
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: How the hell was I supposed to know he had a knife.
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: Never trust a ****.
Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: He could have been white.
Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: Never trust anyone.

View Quote [talking to Burnett on the radio]Burnett!.[pauses].Zero-six, you've been shot down, life is tough. You're a combat aviator, start acting like one. Remember your training, put some angles between you and your pursuers. Evade and survive, and we will bring you home. You got that? We will bring you home.

View Quote You dont know the FIRST thing about serving your country.

View Quote Let's go get our boy back!

View Quote Being a tax lawyer's got nothing to do with the law. It's a game. We teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich. The IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them. It's a game...

View Quote Avery Tolar: Abby, the girl on the beach was a setup. They do things like that, in case the other enticements don't work.
Abby McDeere: What are they going to do to you?
Avery Tolar: Whatever it is, they did it a long time ago.

View Quote Mitch McDeere: What led you to law school?
Avery Tolar: It's so far back I don't think I can remember.
Mitch McDeere: Sure you can, Counsellor.
Avery Tolar: I used to caddy for lawyers and their wives on summer weekends. I looked at those long tan legs and just knew I had to be a lawyer. The wives had long tan legs, too.

View Quote Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.