Fred Ward movie quotes

“- Col. Cal Rhodes: For years I couldn't sleep after Korea. My nightmares all had to do with the Chosin Reservoir. The ground there was so frozen, we couldn't bury our dead. We had to pile 'em on trucks and lash them up against the tanks. For years I'd wake up with those dead, frozen faces staring at me.
- Wilkes: Did it ever go away?
- Col. Cal...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes
Fred Ward - Wilkes

“You come in low under his line of sight. You leap... taking him down, placing your hand over his nose, pulling his face away from your knife hand. At the base of his skull at the right of his spine - what the Chinese call the wind gate - you insert, scramble the brains... what you have is instant rag doll.”

Fred Ward - Wilkes

“- Reece: Like steel pussies.
- Cribbs: What kind of women you been hanging around with?”

Fred Ward - Reece
T.K. Carter - Cribbs

You're floatin' in a big sea of shit and instead of just stayin' in the boat, no, you reach out and you pick up this one little turd and you say "This turd, well this turd pisses me off. I'm gonna do somethin' about this turd!".
Fred Ward - Dix

“- Rocco: Any last words before I throw you off?
- Jane Spencer: Yes. Don't do it.”
Fred Ward - Rocco
Priscilla Presley - Jane Spencer

“The dead can return given sufficent motivation.”
Fred Ward - The Captain

“You know, you might come in useful. While they are eating you it will give me a chance to get away.”

Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.”
Fred Ward

“As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern.”
Fred Ward

“I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for a while. That's probably one reason I became an actor.”
Fred Ward

“- Chiun: I was singing an old Korean love song.
- Remo Williams: It's a wonder the race isn't extinct.”
Joel Grey - Chiun
Fred Ward - Remo Williams

“- Kate (White) Reilly: Believe it or not I was actually a Playmate once. Almost gave my dad a heart attack.
- Earl Bassett: Miss October 1974?
- Kate (White) Reilly: Shit!”
Helen Shaver - Kate 'White' Reilly
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Earl Bassett: No breakfast?
- Valentine McKee: I did it yesterday. It was baloney and beans.
- Earl Bassett: No, it was eggs. I made eggs. Over easy.
- Valentine McKee: Well, I guess when I'm your age, I'll forget what I eat, too.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett
Kevin Bacon - Valentine McKee

“- Earl Bassett: Must be sick.
- Grady: Probably ate someone that didn't agree with it.”

Fred Ward - Earl Bassett
Chris Gartin - Grady Hoover

“- Drunk: Do I need to ring a bell to get a refill? You can see my glass is empty.
- Bobby Cupid: The glass is always empty. So is the spot on the counter where the money's supposed to be.”
Fred Ward - Drunk
Luke Wilson - Bobby Cupid

“Blind loyalty is not loyalty.”
Fred Ward - . Admiral Tuwey

“- Clarence Anglin: Thought we'd pay you a visit.
- Frank Morris: Gonna stay long?
- John Anglin: Not long. Only about fifteen or twenty years.”

Jack Thibeau - Clarence Anglin
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris
Fred Ward - John Anglin

“- Earl Bassett: Oh man, this stuff tastes like toilet paper.
- Grady: Earl, that is the toilet paper.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett
Chris Gartin - Grady Hoover

“Damn it Valentine, you never plan ahead, you never take the long view, I mean here it is Monday and I'm already thinking of Wednesday... It is Monday right?”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Lou Fimple: One more thing, lover boy...
- Deborah Anne Fimple: Oh, God.
- Lou Fimple: Get her pregnant, I'll blow your dick off.”

Fred Ward - Lou Fimple
Kelly Preston - Deborah Anne Fimple

“- Earl Bassett: Hey, Rhonda you ever seen anything like this before?
- Valentine McKee: Oh, sure Earl. Everyone knows about them we just didn't tell you.”

Fred Ward - Earl Bassett
Kevin Bacon - Valentine McKee

“- Henry Miller: I'm not a portrait painter.
- June Miller: I'll say you're not. Look what you've done to Anaïs. You make everything ugly! Beauty is a joke for you. You're so negative. You're a failure as a writer. You're not a man, you're a child! You use women! You used me, you fucker!”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller
Uma Thurman - June Miller

- Henry Luce: Gus? An astronaut named "Gus"? What's your middle name?
- Gus Grissom: Ivan.
- Henry Luce: Ivan... ahem... well. Maybe, Gus isn't so bad, might be something there... All right, all right. You can be Gus.
John Dehner - Henry Luce
Fred Ward - Gus Grissom

“Here's the plan. We don't even stop. Ride like hell. Tonight we keep right on going. We'll walk the horses.”
Fred Ward - Earl Bassett

“- Mayor Kate Hennings: [smacks a mosquito] One down, a six million to go.
- Earl Smooter: Careful, you just killed the state bird of Alabama!”
Candice Bergen - Mayor Kate Hennings
Fred Ward - Earl Smooter