Marion Cobretti quotes from Cobra (1986)

View Quote In America, there's a burglary every 11 seconds, an armed robbery every 65 seconds, a violent crime every 25 seconds, a murder every 24 minutes and 250 rapes a day.

View Quote Hey dirtbag, you're a lousy shot. I don't like lousy shots. You wasted a kid... for nothing. Now I think it's time to waste you.

View Quote As long as we play by these bullshit rules and the killer doesn't, we're gonna lose.

View Quote Chief Halliwell: Cobretti, do know you have an attitude problem?
Marion Cobretti: Yeah, but it's just a little one.

View Quote Marion Cobretti: How bad is it?
Gonzales: It's bad.
Marion Cobretti: Any I.D. on the guy?
Gonzales: Just another asshole who woke up hating the world.

View Quote Supermarket Killer: I got a bomb here! I'll kill her! I'll blow this whole place up!
Marion Cobretti: Go ahead. I don't shop here. All right, just relax, amigo. You wanna talk? We'll talk. I'm a sucker for good conversation.
Supermarket Killer: I don't wanna talk to you! Now, you bring in the television cameras in here now! C'mon, bring 'em in!
Marion Cobretti: Can't do that.
Supermarket Killer: Why?
Marion Cobretti: I don't deal with psychos. I put 'em away.
Supermarket Killer: I ain't no psycho, man! I'm a hero! You're looking at a ****in' hunter! I'm a hero of the New World!
Marion Cobretti: [shakes his head] You're a disease, and I'm the cure.
Supermarket Killer: Die!
[points his sawed-off shotgun at Cobretti. Cobretti throws a knife that he had concealed. It hits the thug in the abdomen]
Marion Cobretti: Drop it!
[the thug continues pointing his sawed-off shotgun at Cobretti. Cobretti fires 5 rounds from his .45 into the man, who dies. Cobretti walks over to the man & takes the bomb out of his hand]

View Quote Detective Monte: Cobretti, no hard feelings. You, uh, kind of overdid it around here. I personally would have looked for a more subtle solution, but that's not your style. No hard feelings.
[Cobretti and Monte shake hands, and then Cobretti punches Monte]
Marion Cobretti: No hard feelings.

View Quote Gonzales: You know, when this is over with, I'd like to celebrate, by punching a hole in Monte's chest!
Marion Cobretti: You know what the trouble with you is? You're too violent.

View Quote Ingrid Knudsen: Do you ever get involved?
Marion Cobretti: With a woman?

View Quote Marion Cobretti: I always wanted to have a tougher one myself. You know, a little harder name.
Ingrid Knudsen: Like what?
Marion Cobretti: Alice.

View Quote Night Slasher: The court is civilized, isn't it, pig?
Marion Cobretti: But I'm not. This is where the law stops and I start, sucker!

View Quote Ingrid Knudsen: Are your men out there?
Marion Cobretti: Yeah, they're out there.
Ingrid Knudsen: Are we just supposed to drive around until he tries to kill us again?
Marion Cobretti: No, they won't get you.
Ingrid Knudsen: You keep saying that. How do you know that for sure?
Marion Cobretti: You got to have faith.

View Quote Night Slasher: Let's bleed pig! Where are you pig? [Cobretti throws a chain as a distraction and the Night Slasher shoots in that direction] I want your eyes, pig! I want them! You want to go to hell? Huh! Huh, pig? You want to go to hell with me? It doesn't matter, does it? We are the hunters! We kill the weak, so the strong survive! You can't stop the New World! Your filthy society will never get rid of people like us! It's breeding them! WE ARE THE FUTURE!
Marion Cobretti: No! [Cobretti suddenly appears and aims his gun at the Night Slasher] You're history.
Night Slasher: You won't do it pig. You won't shoot. Murder is against the law. You have to take me in... if... you can. [grips knife tightly] Even I have rights... don't I... pig? Take me in. They'll say I'm insane. Won't they? The court is civilized... isn't it... pig?
Marion Cobretti: But I'm not. This is where the law stops... and I start... sucker!