Gene Hackman quotes
- From the movie: Unforgiven
- From the movie: The Package
“I lost my package, a prisoner I was bringing back from Germany.”
- From the movie: Heist
“- Mickey Bergman: Don't you want to hear my last words?
- Joe Moore: I just did.” - From the movie: Narrow Margin
“- Robert Caulfield: Why does he have to fly so low?
- Sergeant Dominick Benti: We're not low. The ground's high.” - From the movie: Superman II
“- Lex Luthor: Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age? Eradicate the only man on Earth with...
- Ursa: Kill him!
- Lex Luthor: ...Superman's address?
- General Zod: Come. The three of us will crush the son of our jailer!” - From the movie: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
- Superman: You've broken all the laws of man, Luthor. It looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too. I can only assume you must have hidden a device of some kind on one of the missiles I hurled into the sun.
- Lex Luthor: You know, "Mr. Muscle", I'm really gonna miss these little chats we had together. You're the only one that... (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Quick and the Dead
“- John Herod: I was married to a beautiful woman. She was unfaithful.
- Ellen: Where is she now?
- John Herod: I told you, she was unfaithful.” - From the movie: Crimson Tide
“- Ramsey: How do you like that cigar?
- Hunter: It's good, sir.
- Capt. Ramsey: It's your first?
- Hunter: Yeah.
- Ramsey: Well, don't like it too much. They're more expensive than drugs.” - From the movie: Welcome to Mooseport
“- Monroe Cole: Seven million!
- Grace Sutherland: It's a negotiation.
- Grace Sutherland: You've handled dictators. You've handled terrorists.
- Monroe Cole: Terrorists were easier, I swear to God!” - From the movie: Company Business
“- Pyiotr Grushenko: Whose ass you Americans going to kick now?
- Sam Boyd: Well, we always got Fidel.” - From the movie: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
“- Lex Luthor: Is the world gonna be vaporized?
- Superman: No. It's the same as it's always been, Luthor. On the brink. With good fighting evil. See you in twenty.” - From the movie: The Package
“You and I, we're in separate armies, pal - but you're out in the light now, and I'm gonna see you get stepped on!”
- From the movie: Mississippi Burning
“You know what these small towns are like. A girl spends all her time in high school lookin' for the guy she's gonna marry, and spends the rest of her life wonderin' why.”
- From the movie: Heist
“- Joe Moore: Why doesn't he shoot me?
- Fran Moore: That's the deal.
- Joe Moore: He ain't gonna shoot me?
- Fran Moore: No.
- Joe Moore: Then he hadn't ought to point a gun at me. It's insincere.” - From the movie: The Replacements
“They all played football somewhere, not all of them in the pros, but they all have something unique to bring to the game. We're going to try to get these people together and try to put together a winning team. If nothing else, they should be fun to watch.”
- From the movie: Crimson Tide
“- Hunter: Yes, sir I've seen them. Yes, sir I was aware that they're are all white. They are not from Portugal; they're from Spain and at birth, they're not white; they're black. Sir.
- Ramsey: I didn't know that. But they are from Portugal. Some of the things they do, uh, defy belief. Their training program is simplicity itself. You just stick...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Heartbreakers
“I love a woman who eats raw meat.”
- From the movie: Behind Enemy Lines
- From the movie: The Quick and the Dead
“All I hear from you, you spineless cowards, is how poor you are; how you can't afford my taxes. Yet somehow, you managed to find the money to hire a gunfighter to kill me. If ya got so much money, I'm just gonna have to take some more. Because clearly some of you haven't got the message! This is my town! I run everything! If you live to see the...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Heist
- From the movie: Wyatt Earp
“Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.”
- From the movie: The Chamber
“If you spend half as much time trying to be a lawyer instead of trying to be Dick Tracy, I might not be dead in five days.”
- From the movie: Crimson Tide
“- Ramsey: The sailor most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignore everything except the destruction of the enemy. You'd agree with that.
- Hunter: I'd agree that, um, that's what Clausewitz was trying to say.
- Ramsey: But you wouldn't agree with it?
- Hunter: No, sir, I do not. No, I just...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Superman
- From the movie: The Package
“Who the hell knows what is the truth and what is a lie?”
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