Charles Bronson movie quotes

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Charles Bronson

“I'd like to shove this up your ass, but I don't want to dirty my hands.”
Charles Bronson - Lieutenant Crowe

“- Bennett: We heard shots. What happened?
- Paul Kersey: I sent them a message.”
Martin Balsam - Bennett
Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey

“Being paranoid doesn't mean we're not being followed.”
Charles Bronson - Major Grigori Borzov

“- Eddie Fein: Who do you think you are hanging out in the bathroom? The Fonzie? Dad, do you really think Mrs. Novacek hired Martin to kill her husband?
- Paul Fein: I don't know. Lenny said she did, but her first words in life were probably a lie. Look, we'll find out who killed Novacek. I'm no worried about that.”
Paul Fein - Eddie Fein
Charles Bronson - Paul Fein

“I'm only a product like a cake of soap. To be sold as well as possible.”
Charles Bronson

“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”
Charles Bronson

“I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.”
Charles Bronson

“The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.”
Charles Bronson

“- Tommy O'Shea: Whatever you want. Whatever you need.
- Paul Kersey: I don't need anything. But you, you need a bath!”
Michael Parks - Tommy O'Shea
Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey

“- Cripple: Hey, mister, do you want some dope?
- Holland: Er?
- Cripple: I said, dope. Do you want any?
- Holland: Do you have elephant?
- Cripple: Heh?
- Holland: Do you have Mingtoydop?
- Cripple: Heh?
- Holland: I guess you don't.”
Carlos Romano - Cripple
Charles Bronson - Holland

“- Holland: You know, me and Nancy, we've been into a lot of things. We learned tricks you wouldn't believe. We've been into things like wife-swapping... You married?
- Randolph: No, I'm divorced. But remember, three's a company and four is definitely a crowd. Man, I am down for anything or anybody.
- Holland: Three is all right with me.”
Charles Bronson - Holland
Raymond St. Jacques - Randolph

“You go in that courtroom and forget what's legal and do what's right.”
Charles Bronson - Leo Kessler

“I remember when legal meant lawful. Now it means loophole.”
Charles Bronson - Leo Kessler

“- W.W. Douglas: If you're headin' up to old Curly's I can save you the journey. Skeeters got him last spring. Ate through his eyelids and pumped him full of poison. Curly finally got a gun and blew his brains out.
- Albert Johnson: That's one way to stop the buzzin'.”
Steve Finkel - W.W. Douglass
Charles Bronson - Albert Johnson

- Lara Royce Craig: Don't you think that's subjecting the First Lady to some risk?
- Jay Killian: Lamb for the slaughter?
- Lara Royce Craig: Oh, Killy - what a way with words! Can't you put it another way?
- Jay Killian: Okay. How about "worm wriggling on a hook"?
Jill Ireland - Lara Royce Craig
Charles Bronson - Jay Killian

“- Laurie Kessler: That's some lunch, Dad. Coleslaw and quiche?
- Leo Kessler: I hate quiche.
- Canteen Cashier: Then why did you get it?
- Leo Kessler: I thought it was pie!”
Lisa Eilbacher - Laurie Kessler
Charles Bronson - Leo Kessler

“Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.”
Charles Bronson

“Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.”
Charles Bronson

“I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.”
Charles Bronson

“I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.”
Charles Bronson

“- Joe Roberts: Were you thinking of living?
- Mr. Roberts: There's a trailer park over on Bright's. They got a pretty good deal there.
- Maria: It's nice there. They have a vegetable garden in the back where you can rent a plot. Grow your own.”

David Morse - Joe Roberts
Charles Bronson - Mr. Roberts
Valeria Golino - Maria

“- Gunther Beckdorff: I heard you were a simple man, Giff, who came to Caboblanco and found contentment. Why should you care for a girl who had no passport?
- Gifford Hoyt: Because she's being held here against her will! Why? Do you have use for her? Then what happens? Does she leave Caboblanco alive?”
Jason Robards - Gunther Beckdorff
Charles Bronson - Gifford Hoyt

“- Tommy O'Shea: Guns make you nervous?
- Paul Kersey: Guns have their uses. Idiots with guns make me nervous.”
Michael Parks - Tommy O'Shea
Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey

“- Maj. Reisman: How come you speak German?
- Joseph Wladislaw: My old man came from Silesia. He didn't speak German, he didn't dig coal. If he didn't dig coal, he didn't eat.”
Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman
Charles Bronson - Joseph Wladislaw