Gene Hackman movie quotes

“- Little Bill Daggett: You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.
- Bill Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.”

Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett
Clint Eastwood - Bill Munny

“I lost my package, a prisoner I was bringing back from Germany.”
Gene Hackman - Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

“- Mickey Bergman: Don't you want to hear my last words?
- Joe Moore: I just did.”

Danny DeVito - Mickey Bergman
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore

“- Robert Caulfield: Why does he have to fly so low?
- Sergeant Dominick Benti: We're not low. The ground's high.”
Gene Hackman - Robert Caulfield
M. Emmet Walsh - Sergeant Dominick Benti

“- 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!”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor
Sarah Douglas - Ursa
Terence Stamp - General Zod

- 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)
Christopher Reeve - Superman
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“- 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.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
Sharon Stone - Ellen

“- 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.”
Gene Hackman - Ramsey
Denzel Washington - Hunter

“- 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!”

Gene Hackman - Monroe Cole
Marcia Gay Harden - Grace Sutherland

“- Pyiotr Grushenko: Whose ass you Americans going to kick now?
- Sam Boyd: Well, we always got Fidel.”
Mikhail Baryshnikov - Pyiotr Ivanovich Grushenko
Gene Hackman - Sam Boyd

“- 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.”

Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor
Christopher Reeve - Superman

“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!”

Gene Hackman - Sgt. Johnny Gallagher

“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.”
Gene Hackman - Anderson

“- 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.”
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore
Rebecca Pidgeon - Fran Moore

“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.”
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“- 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)

Denzel Washington - Hunter
Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“I love a woman who eats raw meat.”
Gene Hackman - William B. Tensy

“Zero-six, you've been shot down, life is tough. You're a combat aviator, start acting like one. Remember your training, put some angles between you and your pursuers. Evade and survive, and we will bring you home. You got that? We will bring you home.”

Gene Hackman - Reigart

“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)
Gene Hackman - Herod

“- Coffee Man: Hey buddy. You forgot your change.
- Joe Moore: Makes the world go round.
- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: What's that?
- Joe Moore: Gold.
- Bobby 'Bob' Blane: Some people say love.
- Joe Moore: Well, they're right, too. It is love. Love of gold.”
Tony Calabretta - Coffee Man
Gene Hackman - Joe Moore
Delroy Lindo - Bobby 'Bob' Blane

“Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.”
Gene Hackman - Nicholas Earp

“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.”

Gene Hackman - Sam Cayhall

“- 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)
Gene Hackman - Ramsey
Denzel Washington - Hunter

“Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“Who the hell knows what is the truth and what is a lie?”
Gene Hackman - Sgt. Johnny Gallagher