Robert McCall Progress — not Perfection.
Most-quoted character in The Equalizer (2014): in 19 of its 26 quotes
Most scenes with: Alina (3)
I've done some bad things in my life, Nicolai... Things I'm not proud of. I promised someone I love very much that I would never go back to being that person. But for you, I'm going to make an exception. You asked me what I saw when I looked at you. What do you see when you look at me?
More lines from Robert McCall
10 quotes Robert McCall Robert McCall Advice to a co-worker in a hardware store, training to be a security guard.
Robert McCall That girl, Alina, she's gonna go on living. You — you're gonna bleed out all over this funky floor... All over 9,800 dollars.
Robert McCall When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too.
Robert McCall I am offering you a chance to do the right thing. Take it.
Robert McCall You're supposed to stand for something, punk. Protect and serve. Uphold the law. Justice. Remember?
Robert McCall To a corrupt policeman.
Robert McCall I couldn't tell you why — it mattered. Why what they did to her, that mattered to me so much. One day somebody does something unspeakable to someone else to... someone you hardly knew, and you... do something about it because you can.
Robert McCall The men I killed, your men, I gave them a chance, they made their decision. I'm giving you the opportunity to make yours.
Robert McCall [sitting beside a dying Slavi]
Your heart is beating at three times the normal rate. It’s because you’re losing so muct blood. In about 30 seconds, your body’s gonna shut down, and you’ll suffocate. Alina, the girl you beat half to death, her life’s gonna go on. Yours is gonna end right here, on this funky floor… over ninety-eight hundred dollars. You should have taken the money.
Scenes with Robert McCall
8 scenesYou and I know what I really am.
Robert McCall I was a Pip.
Jay You were a pimp?
Robert McCall No, not a pimp, a Pip. "P - I - P", Pip.
Jay What the **** is a Pip?
Robert McCall Why you got to curse so much? You know, like Gladys Knight & the Pips? Like this. [starts dancing]
Robert McCall [explaining the ending of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, which he was just finishing]
Old man tied the fish to the side of the boat, had to row back to shore, fish bled in the water, sharks came and ate the whole fish till there was nothing left.
That's just kind of a waste, isn't it?
Robert McCall Depends upon how you look at it. The old man met his adversary when he thought that part of his life was over. He saw himself in the fish. Came to... Came to respect it the more it fought.
Why didn't he just let the fish go?
Robert McCall The old man's gotta be the old man. Fish gotta be the fish. Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.
Ralphie I'm not strong enough.
Robert McCall Don't doubt yourself, son. Doubt kills.
I'm Teri.
Robert Bob. …
You know, you don't look like a Bob.
Robert Yeah?
You look like a Robert. Robert reads books like this and Bob watches TV... My real name's Alina.
Robert What happened to your face?
Someone stupid. [after an uncomfortable pause, she get's out a CD of her singing] Okay, it's not professional. Just tell me what you think, okay?
Robert Wow. Alina the singer.
You and I know what I really am.
Robert I think you can be anything you wanna be.
Maybe in your world, Robert. Doesn't happen that way in mine.
Robert Change your world.
You know, I see a lot of widowed guys. Something in your eyes. You know, it's not sad. It's just kind of... lost, you know? You always read books?
Robert My wife did. She... She was working through the 100 Books Everybody Should Read. She made it to 97, so I figured I'd give it a shot. And one day we'd have something to talk about. We'd get together.
I love being up at this hour.
Robert Yeah?
Yeah. You know, everything's so dark. It makes everything seem possible again.
Robert Yeah, me, I can't sleep at night.
Yeah, well, I get to hear your stories. What's your new one about?
Robert It's about a guy who thinks he's a knight in shining armor. The only thing is he lives in a world where knights don't exist anymore.
Kind of sounds like my world.
Ralphie [asking about Robert's injured hand]
What happened?
Robert McCall I hit it on something stupid.
Vladimir Pushkin Who are you?
Robert McCall Everybody wants to know. …
Vladimir Pushkin What do you want?
Robert McCall I want the head of the snake.
Vladimir Pushkin So it's you. And now you've come to kill me.
Robert McCall Yes.
Vladimir Pushkin And tell me, what do you gain from my death?
Robert McCall Peace.
