Most scenes together: Max Cady & Sam Bowden (6), Max Cady & Danielle Bowden (2), Max Cady & Claude Kersek (2)
Cape Fear quotes
Page 2 of 3On Jordan's stormy branks I stand! Oh, who will come with me? I am bound for the promised land! I am bound for the promised l-... land! I am bound for the promised land!
You were right, there is a lot of "cutesy-cutesy" in that little prick, ain't there?
They're great at that age, ain't they? All those discoveries ahead of 'em. You're lucky, Counselor. My own daughter, she don't even know me. After I went inside, her mama told her I was dead - which, in a way, I was.
Counselor? Counselor, is that you? Counselor, come out, come out, wherever you are! I ain't no white trash piece of shit. I'm better than you all! I can out-learn you. I can out-read you. I can out-think you. And I can out-philosophize you. And I'm gonna outlast you. You think a couple whacks to my good ol' boy guts is gonna get me down? It's gonna take a hell of a lot more than that, Counselor, to prove you're better than me! I am like God, and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me, nor I beneath Him be. Silesius, 17th Century. Counselor? Counselor, could you be there? Could you be there? [He whistles] Counselor. I wonder if you're here. Ah, **** it. You're here, you ain't here. What the ****'s the difference?
Guess I'm covered in too many tattoos, huh? But you see, there's not a hell of a lot to do in prison but desecrate your flesh.
I am going to teach you the meaning of commitment. Fourteen years ago I was forced to make a commitment to an eight by nine cell, now you are going to be forced to make a commitment. You could say I'm here to save you.
I learned to read during my stretch. First, Spot Goes to the Farm, then Runaway Bunny, then law books mostly. Did you know that after I discharged you, I acted as my own attorney? Applied several times for an appeal. Mm-hmm. So, here we are - two lawyers, for all practical purposes, talking shop.
I want you to get the hell out of my property!
If you don't leave... if you don't leave my family alone and if you don't get out of here, you're gonna be hurt like you never dreamed.
If you hold on to the past, you die a little each day...
It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. Then in self defense, I could do something to you that you would not like, right here.
My reminiscence: I always thought that for such a lovely river the name was mystifying, Cape Fear, when the only thing to fear on those enchanted summer nights was that the magic would end and real life would come crashing in.
No, you're scared. But that's okay. I want you to savor that fear. The South evolved in fear: fear of the Indian, fear of the slave, fear of the damn Union. The South has a fine tradition of savoring fear.
Tonight, you're gonna learn to be an animal! To live like an animal and to die like one!