Ethan Hawke movie quotes

- Vasquez: I'm Mexican, cabrón. No such thing as a "Texican".
- Goodnight Robicheaux: Try telling that to my granddaddy. He died at the Alamo. New Orleans Greys, long barracks, bayonets. Blood, teeth. Mauled by a horde of teeming brown devils.
- Vasquez: My grandfather was one of those devils, you know. Toluca Battalion. Hey, maybe my... (continue)(continue reading)
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo - Vasquez
Ethan Hawke - Goodnight Robicheaux

- Lelaina Pierce: I just don't understand why things just can't go back to normal at the end of the half hour like on the "Brady Bunch" or something.
- Troy Dyer: Well, 'cause Mr. Brady died of AIDS. Things don't turn out like that.
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

Don't call the alligator "big mouth" till you cross the river.
Ethan Hawke - Goodnight Robicheaux

“That guy was nothing, alright? I didn't take his life, I lived it. I was the best thing that ever happened to that guy. You looked at him, and you saw me, and I looked at you, and I saw you, and we are the same.”
Ethan Hawke - Costa

“- Goodnight Robicheaux: I'll try to use one-syllable words from now on.
- Josh Faraday: What's a syllable?”
Ethan Hawke - Goodnight Robicheaux
Chris Pratt - Josh Faraday

“- Alonzo: Why do you wanna be a narc?
- Jake: I want to protect the streets by ridding it of dangerous drugs.
- Alonzo: Yeah, but why do you wanna be a narc?
- Jake: I wanna make detective.”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“- Jake: How much money was in that bag?
- Alonzo: 40 G's.
- Jake: What was that for?
- Alonzo: You really wanna know?
- Jake: Yeah. I asked, didn't I?
- Alonzo: Nothing's free in this world, Jake. Not even arrest warrants.
- Jake: Shit, I didn't wanna know.”

Ethan Hawke - Jake
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“Fame is a sarcophagus.”
Ethan Hawke - Goodnight Robicheaux

“Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“I heard a knock at the door. There was an old lady. They were headed to my dads workshop. I could hear chanting, they were wearing robes. There was a black mask. I think they were following me.”
Ethan Hawke - Angela Grey

“I am starting to use my head again.”
Ethan Hawke - Bruce Kenner

“I'm not one of you... I'm not one of you!”
Ethan Hawke - Bruce Kenner

“What a merry band, we are. Me a Grey, Chisolm a Blue, Billy a mysterious man of the Orient, a drunk Irishman, a Texican, a female and her gentlemen caller. This is not going to end well.”
Ethan Hawke - Goodnight Robicheaux

“- Jake: [stepping into Alonzo's Monte Carlo for the first time] This car is not from the motor pool.
- Alonzo: It's not, sexy though, ain't it?
- Jake: So, where's the office? Back at division?
- Alonzo: You're in the office, baby.”
Ethan Hawke - Jake
Denzel Washington - Alonzo

“- Jude: What did you mean when you said you were here to kidnap me?
- Les: I'm rescuing you. Taking you to the Big Apple.
- Jude: And why would I go with you?
- Les: I'm offering you Manhattan, champ. Don't play hard to get.”
Asa Butterfield - Jude
Ethan Hawke - Les

“- Céline: It's depressing, no? That the... the only thing we're gonna think of is when we're gonna have to say goodbye tomorrow.
- Jesse: Well, we could say goodbye now. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it in the morning.”
Julie Delpy - Céline
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Alonzo: What's wrong with street justice?
- Jake: Oh, what, so just let the animals wipe themselves out, right?
- Alonzo: God willing. Fuck 'em, and everybody that looks like 'em.”
Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“You two are peas in a pod, all right? You know why she doesn't tell you anything, Diane? Because you try to control every situation you get your hands on. And you know why she does that? Cause you are totally out of control.”

Ethan Hawke - Les

“I have this idea of my best self, and I wanted to pursue that even if it might have been overriding my honest self.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“Nine out of ten war victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms. Those nuclear weapons sit in their silos. Your AK-47, that's the real weapon of mass destruction.”

Ethan Hawke - Jack Valentine

“- Moreno: So tell me something. How long have you been a pig, I mean, a police officer?
- Jake: I've been a pig for 19 months.
- Moreno: 19 months? You like it?
- Jake: I should have been a fireman.”
Noel Gugliemi - Moreno
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.”
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“Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. ”
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“The girls who like me aren't the ones I like.”
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“The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.”
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