Gene Hackman movie quotes

“Those sailors out there are just boys... boys who are training to do a terrible and unthinkable thing, and if that ever occurs the only reassurance they'll have that they're doing the proper thing is gonna derive from their unqualified belief in the unified chain of command. That means we don't question each other's motives in front of the crew....” (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“- Lenny: You gonna skip the country, uncle Lex?
- Lex Luthor: Lenny, you pathetic product of the public school system, your uncle Lex has had nothing on his mind the past few years except for one thing: destroy Superman!”
Jon Cryer - Lenny
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“- Mitch McDeere: What led you to law school?
- Avery Tolar: It's so far back I don't think I can remember.
- Mitch McDeere: Sure you can, Counsellor.
- Avery Tolar: I used to caddy for lawyers and their wives on summer weekends. I looked at those long tan legs and just knew I had to be a lawyer. The wives had long tan legs, too.”
Tom Cruise - Mitch McDeere
Gene Hackman - Avery Tolar

“- Doris Saphron: I miss Murray, Harry.
- Harry Zimm: Yeah, I miss him, too. Hell of a good writer, you know. I should know, I discovered him. Made him what he was.
- Doris Saphron: What he was, was a hack. He couldn't get a job writing for anybody but you. I'm being honest. He was a lousy writer, but he was a good husband. I just didn't know...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bette Midler - Doris Saphron
Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm

“By the way, you so much as look at my daughter, they won't be able to identify you with dental records.”
Gene Hackman - Jedediah Tucker Ward

“- Royal Tenenbaum: You can't raise boys to be scared of life. You gotta brew some recklessness into them.
- Etheline Tenenbaum: I think that's terrible advice.”
Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaum
Anjelica Huston - Etheline Tenenbaum

- Suzanne Vale: You don't know my mother.
- Lowell Kolchek: I don't know your mother, but I'll tell you something. She did it to you and her mother did it to her and back and back and back all the way to eve and at some point you just say, "fuck it, I start with me".

Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale
Gene Hackman - Lowell Kolchek

- Ray "Bones" Barboni: What three hundred grand?
- Harry Zimm: The three hundred grand a guy named Leo Devoe scammed off an airline. The three hundred grand Chili Palmer now has in his possession. Hello. Are you there?
- Ray "Bones" Barboni: Yeah, I'm here. I just don't like the anonymous crap. It means your either chickenshit or not for real.

Dennis Farina - Ray "Bones" Barboni
Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm

“- Ulga Yevanova: God is everywhere.
- William B. Tensy: Yes, he is. Isn't he? Nosy bastard.”
Sigourney Weaver - Ulga Yevanova
Gene Hackman - William B. Tensy

“- Clifford Franklin: Coach, ain't that stuff illegal?
- Jimmy McGinty: What are they going to do? Put you in football jail?”

Orlando Jones - Clifford Franklin
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“- Joe Moore: Anybody can get the goods. The hard part's getting away. You plan a good enough getaway, you could steal Ebbets Field.
- Mickey Bergman: Ebbets Field's gone.
- Joe Moore: What did I tell you?”
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore
Danny DeVito - Mickey Bergman

“You take on a job, you finish it. Any man who can't be depended on steady, ain't worth the trouble of having around.”
Gene Hackman - Nicholas Earp

“- Ellis Fielding: Oh, Mac. Mac, Mac, Mac. You know why we make such good partners?
- MacArthur Stern: No. Why?
- Ellis Fielding: Because technically, you're crazier than I am.
- MacArthur Stern: I knew that”
Dan Aykroyd - Ellis Fielding
Gene Hackman - MacArthur Stern

“Mr Hunter, we have rules that are not open to interpretation, personal intuition, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck, little devils or angels sitting on your shoulder. We're all very well aware of what our orders are and what those orders mean. They come down from our Commander in Chief. They contain no ambiguity.”

Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“- Joe Moore: Where's my wife?
- Mickey Bergman: Let me tell you something about your girl Joe, she's a whore.”
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore
Danny DeVito - Mickey Bergman

“Calling that collection of piranhas a community is one of life's ironies.”

Gene Hackman - David Brice

“What do you hope to achieve if you win? You gonna bring Jacob Wood back to life? No. Jacob Wood and all the other gun violence victims remain rotting in their crypts.”
Gene Hackman - Rankin Fitch

“It's been a long time since I haven't known for certain what a day had in store for me.”
Gene Hackman - Harry MacKenzie

“I suppose you know, Bob, if I ever see you again I'm just going to start shooting and figure it was self-defense.”

Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett

“Lenny, I've always considered you the Dutch Elm disease in my family tree.”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“- Brig. Gen. George Crook: A lot of White-Eyes want to see Geronimo hanged for murder.
- Geronimo: Not murder. War. Many bad things happen in war.”
Gene Hackman - Brig. Gen. George Crook
Wes Studi - Geronimo

“- Piquet: If we fly in there, we create a shitstorm, and the whole treaty will collapse.
- Reigart: Admiral, Burnett says that Serb troops murdered his pilot!
- Piquet: Is your pilot an expert on Bosnia? Can he tell the difference of the uniform of a Serb, Croat, and Muslim? Because I can't, and I've been posted here for five years.”

Joaquim de Almeida - Piquet
Gene Hackman - Reigart

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is: a) whatever the IRS says, b) a smart lawyer, c) ten years in prison, d) all of the above?”
Gene Hackman - Avery Tolar

“I had dignity once. Does anybody remember that?”
Gene Hackman - Monroe Cole

A hearty bienvenue to Jean-Pierre Dubois, nuclear warhead dealer to the world. His motto is: "if you didn't buy it from Jean-Pierre, you didn't buy it on the black market".
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor