Clint Eastwood movie quotes

“- Chief Lester Jannings: You're the famous Harry Callahan. So I'm going to tell you two things. We don't have any trouble in this town and we don't need any from you. Got it?
- Harry Callahan: Aye-aye, sir.”
Pat Hingle - Chief Jannings
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“- Tommy Nowak: Now, if these people are going to stand here, pointing guns like this... I'm gonna ask you, are you an organ doner Alex?
- Alex: Nobody shoots!”
Clint Eastwood - Tommy Nowak
Michael Des Barres - Alex

“- Lilly Raines: I'd say that was safeguarding his dignity.
- Frank Horrigan: That was different. He was different.
- Lilly Raines: Maybe you were different.
- Frank Horrigan: I was different. The whole damn country was different. Everything would be different right now too if I'd been half as a paranoid as I am today.”

Rene Russo - Lilly Raines
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Mitch Leary: Do you have any idea what I've done for God and country? Some pretty fucking horrible things! I don't even remember who I was before they sunk their claws into me!
- Frank Horrigan: They made you into a real monster, right?
- Mitch Leary: That's right. And now they want to destroy me because we can't have monsters roaming the...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Thao: What was it like to kill someone?
- Walt Kowalsky: You don't want to know.”
Bee Vang - Thao
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalsky

“- First Secretary: This is the First Secretary. I am speaking to the individual who has stolen the property of the U.S.S.R. Can your hear me, Mr. Gant?
- Mitchell Gant: We're getting the royal treatment.”

Stefan Schnabel - First Secretary
Clint Eastwood - Mitchell Gant

“- Marisol: Why do you do this for us?
- Joe: Why? I knew someone like you once. There was no one there to help.”

Marianne Koch - Marisol
Clint Eastwood - Joe

“- Charley Butts: I turned 35 today. Some birthday! When's your birthday?
- Frank Morris: I don't know.
- Charley Butts: Geez, what kind of childhood did you have?
- Frank Morris: Short.”
Larry Hankin - Charley Butts
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris

“- Little Bill Daggett: You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.
- Bill Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.”

Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett
Clint Eastwood - Bill Munny

“- Harry Callahan: The Doker case is mine. It was at a standstill. I was just trying to break it loose.
- Captain Briggs: Sure, with threats and intimidation!
- Harry Callahan: Any way possible!”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan
Bradford Dillman - Captain Briggs

“- Sergeant Webster: [as the platoon is marching back] Major Powers' gonna teach you how to discipline your men.
- Highway: Webster, if Powers ever comes to a sudden stop your face is gonna go half way up his ass.”
Moses Gunn - Sgt. Webster
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“- Harry Callahan: Do you like cops?
- Samantha Walker: As long as they're not in my rearview mirror.”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan
Patricia Clarkson - Samantha Walker

“- Frank Horrigan: I normally prefer not to get to know the people I'm protecting.
- Lilly Raines: Why's that?
- Frank Horrigan: You never know. You might decide they're not worth taking a bullet for.”
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan
Rene Russo - Lilly Raines

“- Frankie Dunn: How many eyes do you need to finish this fight?
- Maggie Fitzgerald: One's enough.”

Clint Eastwood - Frankie Dunn
Hilary Swank - Maggie Fitzgerald

“Claudia, she straightened me up, cleared me of drinkin' whiskey and all. Just 'cause we're goin' on this killing, that doesn't mean I'm gonna go back to bein' the way I was. I just need the money, get a new start for them youngsters. Ned, you remember that drover I shot through the mouth and his teeth came out the back of his head? I think about...” (continue)(continue reading)

Clint Eastwood - Bill Munny

“I'm not doing this because I want to take long showers with you assholes and I don't want to get my head shot off in some far away land because you don't habla, comprende?”
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“What the hell does everybody want with my Gran Torino?”
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski

“- Whit: Uncle Red, don't you think you have a problem with your drinking?
- Red Stovall: Only when I can't get it.
- Whit: I mean - don't you think you might need some help with your drinking?
- Red Stovall: No, I do quite well all by myself.”
Kyle Eastwood - Whit
Clint Eastwood - Red Stovall

“- Sue: The Lutherans brought us over.
- Walt Kowalski: Everybody blames the Lutherans.”
Ahney Her - Sue
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski

“You forgot the rule. Now, what is the rule? Is to protect yourself at all times.”

Clint Eastwood - Frankie Dunn

“- Maggie Fitzgerald: You're gonna leave me again?
- Frankie Dunn: Never.”
Hilary Swank - Maggie Fitzgerald
Clint Eastwood - Frankie Dunn

“- Walt Kowalski: Hey Kennedy, you drunken Irish goon, how the hell are you?
- Tim Kennedy: I'm shitty, but who's gonna listen?
- Walt Kowalski: Not me, that's for sure.”
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski
William Hill - Tim Kennedy

“- Pyotr Baranovich: Do you smoke?
- Mitchell Gant: No, not for years.
- Pyotr Baranovich: Learn again, now.
- Mitchell Gant: These aren't even Russian cigarettes.
- Pyotr Baranovich: Foreign cigarettes in the mouth of the person you are pretending to be will be even more convincing than anything else - even your papers.”

Nigel Hawthorne - Pyotr Baranovich
Clint Eastwood - Mitchell Gant

“- Frank Corvin: Hawk, this isn't a stripped-down showplane. You've got to do it their way.
- Hawk Hawkins: I don't need a damn computer to tell me how to land an aircraft.
- Roger Hines: It's not an aircraft, Colonel. It's a flying brick, and you've got to use the computer's protocols.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins
Courtney B. Vance - Roger Hines

“People say Hollywood when they want to insult you. Well, really Hollywood is just a place where they make a profit. It's a factory town like Detroit or Birmingham or Schaffhausen. Because the cheap element of the town has been so overly advertised it becomes an insult to remind a man he's from there.”
Clint Eastwood - John Wilson