Gene Hackman movie quotes

Ground team, you're up that trail, you've got the grid coordinates. Air team, you follow me down this creek. Well, that's it... it's game time. I had a speech prepared, but I guess I forgot it. There are some lines from Julius Caesar. "If a man were to know the end of this day's business, here it come; but it suffices that the day will end, and... (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“- Anderson: You know, if I were a Negro, I'd probably think the same way they do.
- Ward: If you were a Negro, nobody would give a damn what you thought.”
Gene Hackman - Anderson
Willem Dafoe - Ward

“Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.”
Gene Hackman - Anderson

“- Mayor Tilman: Do you like baseball, do you, Anderson?
- Anderson: Yeah, I do. You know, it's the only time when a black man can wave a stick at a white man and not start a riot.”
R. Lee Ermey - Mayor Tilman
Gene Hackman - Anderson

“It's amazing that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving.”

Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“- Ward: Some things are worth dying for.
- Anderson: Down here, things are different; here, they believe that some things are worth killing for.”
Willem Dafoe - Ward
Gene Hackman - Anderson

“- Superman: You'd risk world wide nuclear war for your own personal financial gain.
- Lex Luthor: Nobody wants war. I just want to keep the threat alive.”
Christopher Reeve - Superman
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“There's a strong streak of good in you, Superman. But then nobody's perfect... almost nobody.”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“Louise, people in this country aren't interested in details. They don't even trust details. The only thing they trust is headlines.”
Gene Hackman - Sen. Kevin Keeley

“There is no tomorrow for you, and that makes you all very dangerous people!”

Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“- Shane Falco: Why me?
- Jimmy McGinty: I look at you and I see two men: the man you are, and the man you ought to be. Someday those two will meet. Should make for a hell of a football player.”
Keanu Reeves - Shane Falco
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“- Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this... to die like this. I was building a house.
- Bill Munny: Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
- Little Bill Daggett: I'll see you in hell, William Munny.
- Bill Munny: Yeah.”

Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett
Clint Eastwood - Bill Munny

“- 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

“They won't go over there and pick up our buddies and bring 'em back home, because there's no gain in it. You and I know that the books are still in the red. And the politicians know, too. The same politicians that never lost a single son in Vietnam - not one.”
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“We'll be eating nothing but Vietnamese food from now on. We don't want to be tramping through the jungles, smelling like Americans.”
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“- Mrs. Wilkes: You have got no right to be here. It has taken me ten years to get that goddamned war out of his head.
- Col. Cal Rhodes: Looks to me like it's still in his head pretty strong.
- Mrs. Wilkes: Oh, that's very deep. Gee, where were you all the days he just sat for hours, staring at the walls?”

Jane Kaczmarek - Mrs. Wilkes
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“When there's a war, the Rhodes fight. We lost almost the whole family at Gettysburg in one day. That's all we're good at. Never been good at anything else. Haven't always been real good at the fighting, either. A lot of us been killed... but we're always there.”
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“The truth is, you guys have been given something that every athlete dreams of: a second chance. And you're afraid of blowing it. We all are. But now our fear is shared, and we can overcome it together.”
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“- Superman: Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks? By planning the death of innocent people?
- Lex Luthor: No, by causing the death of innocent people.”
Christopher Reeve - Superman
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“- MacArthur Stern: Mr. Gutterman come out of recovery yet?
- Nurse: Mr. Gutterman? Oh, you mean the whale from hell?”
Gene Hackman - MacArthur Stern
Nancy Parsons - Nurse

“- John Herod: It's true that you gunned down four men?
- Ace Hanlon: Two with my left hand. Two with my right hand. You see, the truth is that I am just as good with either.
- John Herod: You must be the fastest gun in the west... That, or the biggest liar.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
Lance Henriksen - Ace Hanlon

“I've seen you guys can shoot but there's more to the game than shooting. There's fundamentals and defense.”
Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale

“This is Lex Luthor. Only one thing alive with less than four legs can hear this frequency, Superman, and that's you.”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“- Edward O'Neil: Give me a cigarette.
- Jimmy McGinty: I quit.
- Edward O'Neil: Nobody likes a quitter, Jimmy.”
Jack Warden - Edward O'Neil
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“Unless we're parked in San Diego Bay, you're at war every time you step on this boat.”

Gene Hackman - Reigart