Gene Hackman movie quotes

“- Jedediah Tucker Ward: If your mother could hear you now.
- Maggie Ward: Well she can't, can she? She finally got out of here and wherever she is, she's gotta be much happier than she was with you.”
Gene Hackman - Jedediah Tucker Ward
Mary Elizabeth Mastantonio - Maggie Ward

“- Hunter: Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons, we cannot launch our missiles unless both you and I agree.
- Ramsey: COB, what're you waiting for?
- Hunter: This is not a formality, sir! This is expressly why your command must be repeated. It requires my assent, I do not give it and furthermore, you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denzel Washington - Hunter
Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“- Royal Tenenbaum: I've always been considered an asshole for about as long as I can remember. That's just my style. But I'd really feel blue if I didn't think you were going to forgive me.
- Henry Sherman: I don't think you're an asshole, Royal. I just think you're kind of a son of a bitch.
- Royal Tenenbaum: Well, I really appreciate that.”
Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaum
Danny Glover - Henry Sherman

“We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.”
Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor

“Once I had it all. Now I just have everything.”
Gene Hackman - Jack McCann

“- Claire: You decided to go with the Network?
- Alex Grazier: Yeah... They're gonna' give me 10 grand a week to read the news. I'll be in 60 million homes every night. When I take a breath, all of America will take a breath. When my voice trembles, all of America will tremble. I'm gonna' be a star. My vocal inflection will be more important than...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joanna Cassidy - Claire
Gene Hackman - Alex Grazier

“- Gloria Russell: He saw.
- Allen Richmond: He saw nothing. He saw a drunk woman who liked rough sex too much. He's a burglar. Who's gonna believe him? After all, it's not as if he has any evidence or anything.”

Judy Davis - Gloria Russell
Gene Hackman - President Richmond

“Good doctors do the correct thing. Great doctors have the guts to do the right thing. Your father had those guts.”

Gene Hackman - Dr. Lawrence Myrick

“- Rachel: Having a bad day?
- MacArthur Stern: No, I'm having a terrible day. Say something nice to me, will ya, please.
- Rachel: You have very strong lookin' thighs for a white man.”
S. Epatha Merkerson - Rachel
Gene Hackman - MacArthur Stern

- Lex Luthor: What am I gonna do with you people, huh? I held up my end, I delivered the blue boy. What do I get from my triple threat? "Bow! Yield! Kneel!". That kind of stuff closes out a town.
- General Zod: Why do you say this to me when you know I will kill you for it?

Gene Hackman - Lex Luthor
Terence Stamp - General Zod

“There's a tradition in tournament play: not talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you.”
Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale

“- Chili Palmer: Harry Zimm.
- Harry Zimm: Jesus Christ!
- Chili Palmer: How you doing? I'm Chili Palmer.
- Harry Zimm: Jesus, if I have a heart attack, I hope you know what to do.”

John Travolta - Chili Palmer
Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm

“- Nuclear Man: Where is the woman?
- Superman: Give it up, you'll never find her.
- Nuclear Man: If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!”
Gene Hackman - Nuclear Man
Christopher Reeve - Superman

“- Harry Zimm: Doris, I don't know how I feel about this.
- Doris Saphron: You seem to feel fine about it.
- Harry Zimm: I mean, morally, you know. Murray was a friend.
- Doris Saphron: Murray's dead.”

Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm
Bette Midler - Doris Saphron

I once asked this literary agent, uh, what kind of writing paid the best... he said, "Ransom notes".
Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm

“- David Brice: You tell me who it is!
- Susan Atwell: He's not a pig like you!”

Gene Hackman - David Brice
Sean Young - Susan Atwell

“- Lowell Kolchek: You're not going to get a lot of sympathy. Do you know how many people would give their right arm to live your life?
- Suzanne Vale: That's the problem. I can't feel my life. I look around me and I know so much of it is good.”
Gene Hackman - Lowell Kolchek
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“- Sunny: Hey Dad. This is Kate. Your wife.
- Harry MacKenzie: I sure as hell know who my wife is.
- Sunny: I sure as hell would like to know who this is.”
Amy Madigan - Sunny
Gene Hackman - Harry MacKenzie

“Do you think you're the first person to lose someone? That's what life is all about, loss! But we don't use it as an excuse to destroy ourselves. We go on, all of us.”
Gene Hackman - Nicholas Earp

“Order some breakfast! It's the most important meal of the day. You should take better care of yourself.”

Gene Hackman - David Brice

“- George Dupler: How did he die?
- Freddie Dupler: I don't know... brain haemorrhoid?
- George Dupler: Brain... haemorrhage?”
Gene Hackman - George Dupler
Dennis Quaid - Freddie Dupler

“- Ward: Just don't lose sight of whose rights are being violated!
- Anderson: Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward.
- Ward: Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson!
- Anderson: These people are crawling out of the sewer, Mr. Ward! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be!”
Willem Dafoe - Ward
Gene Hackman - Anderson

“- Little Bill Daggett: Being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya.
- W.W. Beauchamp: But if the other fella is quicker, and fires first...
- Little Bill Daggett: Then he'll be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Little Bill Daggett
Saul Rubinek - W.W. Beauchamp

“Any crew member who thinks that they can't handle the situation, can leave the ship right now. Gentlemen, we are at Defcon 3, war is imminent. This the captain. That is all.”
Gene Hackman - Ramsey

“Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team. No one more important that the other.”

Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale