Gene Hackman movie quotes

“- Mickey Bergman: OK, you want to wrap it up? Or you want to just stand around here, try to guess my real name?
- Joe Moore: What is your real name?
- Mickey Bergman: Rumpelstiltskin.
- Joe Moore: What was it before you changed it?”
Danny DeVito - Mickey Bergman
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore

“- Royal Tenenbaum: I've got six weeks to set things right with you and I aim to do it. Will you give me a chance?
- Chas Tenenbaum: No.
- Royal Tenenbaum: Do you speak for everyone?
- Chas Tenenbaum: I speak for myself.”

Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaum
Ben Stiller - Chas Tenenbaum

“- John Herod: I could give you more money than you could ever spend.
- Ellen: I wouldn't feel like I'd earned it.
- John Herod: Oh yes, you would.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
Sharon Stone - Ellen

“Do yourself a favor and take the rest of your life off. If I see you again ... I won't see you again.”
Gene Hackman - Walter Lloyd

“Like I always say - put a fox in the henhouse and you'll have chicken for dinner every time.”
Gene Hackman - Herod

- Little Bill Daggett: First off, Corky never carried two guns. Though he should have.
- W.W. Beauchamp: No, no, he was, he was called "Two-Gun Corcoran".
- Little Bill Daggett: Yeah well, a lot of folks did call him "Two-Gun" but that wasn't because he was sporting two pistols. That was because he had a dick that was so big it was longer than... (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett
Saul Rubinek - W.W. Beauchamp

“Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.”
Gene Hackman

“There is nothing sexier than smoke billowing proudly out of a woman's hot, red, engorged nostrils.”
Gene Hackman - William B. Tensy

“My love, tonight we will celebrate this ecstatic joining of our spirits with the union of our aching bodies.”

Gene Hackman - William B. Tensy

“You want the truth that's what love is, isn't it? Truth? True love, true love is what goes on and on. It never stops. Down and down in the water 'til you're drowning. And it's on shore, on the sand, in the back of a car. Then it's on the bed, it's an electric bed isn't it? Like an electric chair as it was switched on until neither of us can stop...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Hackman - Jack McCann

“This place looks like an explosion in a dairy.”
Gene Hackman - MacArthur Stern

“- David Brice: Your search is over, Major!
- Major Donovan: Is that...?
- David Brice: He shot himself!”

Gene Hackman - David Brice
Jason Bernard - Major Donovan

“- General Mandible: You're an ant after my own heart, an ant who looks death in the face and laughs.
- Z: Actually, I generally just make belittling comments and snicker behind death's back.”
Gene Hackman - General Mandible
Woody Allen - Z

“Horses're fascinating animals. Dumb as fenceposts but very intuitive. In that way they're not too different from high school girls: they may not have a brain in their head but they do know all the boys want to fuck 'em.”
Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“- Rankin Fitch: You don't have much faith in the Law!
- Nicholas Easter: I'm agnostic.”
Gene Hackman - Rankin Fitch
John Cusack - Nicholas Easter

“I see a man unbuttoning a new frock for the first time. And trying to get me tipsy while stay sober himself. Because he's beginning to realize I could hold a hell of a lot of liquor. I see a man with other women; secretive, dissatisfied with me. Telling lies, small ones, but needing me more than anything. I see a man who can't pass a mirror...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gene Hackman - Jack McCann

“- Jimmy McGinty: A real man admits his fears. That's what I'm asking you to do here tonight. Fears... lets talk about them.
- Clifford Franklin: I'm scared of spiders, Coach.”
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty
Orlando Jones - Clifford Franklin

“- Royal Tenenbaum: Look, I know I'm going to be the bad guy on this one, but I just want to say the last six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life.
- Narrator: Immediately after making this statement, Royal realized that it was true.”

Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaum
Alec Baldwin - Narrator

“Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It's your weight and my I.Q.”

Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“People die everyday. And for what? For nothing. What do we do? What do you do? You take care of the ones you think you can save.”

Gene Hackman - Dr. Lawrence Myrick

“- Royal Tenenbaum: You know, Richie, this illness, this closeness to death... it's had a profound affect on me. I feel like a different person, I really do.
- Richie Tenenbaum: Dad, you were never dying.
- Royal Tenenbaum: But I'm going to live.”
Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaum
Luke Wilson - Richie Tenenbaum

- Ray "Bones" Barboni: What, this Zimm guy asking for some kinda finders fee, that what we're talking about here?
- Harry Zimm: Hey, Zimm doesn't ask for dick. Zimm tells you the way it is... or else.
- Ray "Bones" Barboni: Or else what?
- Harry Zimm: Or else use your fucking imagination!

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

“Don't get caught up thinking about winning or losing this game. If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book, we're gonna be winners!”

Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale

“She could talk her way out of a sunburn.”

Gene Hackman - Joe Moore

“You know what I like about you? You're tall.”
Gene Hackman - Robert Caulfield