Léon quotes

View Quote SWAT Leader: Alpha team -- final position. We're ready to go.
Stansfield: Be careful.
...
SWAT Leader: Alpha team -- man down, man down!
Stansfield: I told you.

View Quote You've been really great with me, Leon. And it's not always like that-- you know?

View Quote I think we're gonna be okay here, Leon.

View Quote I'm putting in the name of a girl in my class who makes me sick. If things get hot, she'll take the heat.

View Quote You don't like Beethoven. You don't know what you're missing. Overtures like that get my juices flowing. So powerful! But after his openings, to be honest, he does tend to get a little ****ing boring... That's why I stopped!

View Quote I have a lot of respect for your business, Tony. When you've killed for us in the past, w-we've always been satisfied. And that's exactly why today is going to be very, very hard for me.

View Quote My man was killed right here on your turf, and the **** tell me that the hit man was kind of the, uh, Italian type. So we figured Tony might know something. Wait, there's more - you're gonna love this. A few hours later, a little twelve-year-old girl comes into my office armed to the teeth, with the firm intention of sending me straight to the morgue. And you know who came and got her, in the middle of the afternoon, right there in my building? The very same Italian hit man. I'm dying to meet him!

View Quote It's been a long time, L?on. I missed you. And, uh, you missed some nice jobs.

View Quote Leave it to me. We're checking out.

View Quote We said noon. I've got one minute past.

View Quote Mathilda, why are you doing this to me? I've been nothing but nice to you.

View Quote I'm late for work. I hate being late for work.

View Quote I know where to find the guys who killed my brother. Their boss is Norman Stansfield, and he's in the D.E.A. building, room 4602. I'm gonna do them myself. If something goes wrong, I left you twenty grand on the table. It's for a contract -- five grand a head, right? I know I'll feel better after I do this." (voice-over, from note)

View Quote (L?on, asleep, suddenly wakes and jerks upright.)
Mathilda: Relax. Everything's fine. Sleep well?
L?on: I never really sleep. Got one eye open always.
Mathilda: Yeah, I forgot. You know, I never saw someone with one eye open snore so much.
L?on: I snore?
Mathilda: Like a baby.

View Quote (As L?on and Mathilda enter hotel lobby, the desk clerk looks disapprovingly at the violin case they're carrying)
Hotel Clerk: You expect to use that in this hotel?
Mathilda: Mister -- I have to use it... because I have an audition at Juilliard next month, and I have to practice.
Clerk: Okay, okay, okay -- but not after ten.
Mathilda: Okay, I promise.
Clerk: All right. I'll put you at the end of the hall so you don't disturb anyone. (He sets some forms in front of L?on.) Fill those out, please.
Mathilda: Oh, um... Daddy, can I please fill them out? You know how I like to check into hotels. (L?on nods.) Thanks, Pop! (to Clerk) I'll bring these back in a minute.
Clerk: Uh... fourth floor.
Mathilda (running up stairway): Thanks, mister!
Clerk (to L?on): You're lucky to have a little girl who's interested in things. I got a kid, seventeen, does nothing all day long.