Héctor Elizondo movie quotes

“Food is a passion. Food is love.”
Héctor Elizondo

“You've achieved a great deal of success in your creative and artistic field. You've traveled a great deal. You have influential friends. You've dated a bevy of bright and beautiful woman. Yet, with all this, you never had a lasting relationship.”
Héctor Elizondo - Martin

“- Joe: This is between a waltz and a tango.
- Mia Thermopolis: It's a wango?”
Héctor Elizondo - Joe
Anne Hathaway - Mia Thermopolis

“Here's who you're dealing with: male Caucasian, 35, well educated, raised by his aunt who mysteriously disappeared when he was 16, has raped and strangled five women, escaped when being transported to San Quentin.”

Héctor Elizondo - Lt. Aldo Hines

“I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.”
Héctor Elizondo

“I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.”
Héctor Elizondo

“- Coach Wally Rig: I forgot. You're a genius. That's why you have a bigger whistle than I do.
- Coach Ed Gennero: I can't believe it. Now he has whistle-envy.”
Robert Loggia - Coach Wally Rig
Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero

“- Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Dear Joseph, am I too late to ask you to accept my hand in marriage?
- Joe: I thought you'd never ask.”
Julie Andrews - Queen Clarisse Renaldi
Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“There only two important things in living - finding out what you do well and finding out what makes you happy. And if God is smiling on you, they're both the same thing.”
Héctor Elizondo - Arthur Willis

“- Ellie Graham: Where is she going?
- Fisher: I don't know, but she'll be there by 10:30 tomorrow.”

Rita Wilson - Ellie Graham
Héctor Elizondo - Fisher

- Viscount Mabrey: Sir, you will find that the word "fear" is not in my vocabulary!
- Joe: Perhaps... but it's in your eyes.
John Rhys-Davies - Viscount Mabrey
Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“Viscount, you may not be aware of what my job entails as the Royal Head of Security. My job is to protect the crown. To make sure no harm comes to the crown. To step in when someone toys with the crown's emotions.”

Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“- Coach Ed Gennero: Wally, did you hire an Assistant Coach without telling me?
- Coach Wally Rig: No, I found a Quarterback without telling you.
- Coach Ed Gennero: I hope he gets younger as he gets closer.”

Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero
Robert Loggia - Coach Wally Rig

“- Major Robert Dapes: It's a girl! I want to question her.
- Captain Raphael Ramirezrez: Yes. First you, then she is 'questioned' by the sergeant and each of the men as many times as possible, and then two or three days later she is taken and shot. It would be much kinder to shoot her now.”

Sir Sean Connery - Major Robert Dapes
Héctor Elizondo - Captain Raphael Ramirez

“If you hurt my girl, you will answer directly to me, and whatever crimes I commit against you, remember, I have diplomatic immunity in 46 countries, including Puerto Rico.”

Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“- Dr. Walter Rist: I thought that you were musically inclined. Do you ever sing? You know or play any instrument?
- Angelo: Fuckin' guitar.
- Dr. Walter Rist: Is that a, a special kind of guitar?
- Angelo: No, it's regular.”
Patrick Collins - Dr. Walter Rist
Héctor Elizondo - Angelo

“- Chris Berman: What happened to the players?
- Coach Ed Gennero: All the players from the old team have been expelled and all the coaches have been fired.
- Chris Berman: Where will they get their new players?
- Coach Ed Gennero: Their new players must be real students. No more scholarships, no more monkey business, no more special favors or...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Berman - Himself
Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero

“Dean Elias is looking for any reason to bury us.”

Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero

“- Major Robert Dapes: Why were those people shot?
- Captain Raphael Ramirez: Perhaps they tried to escape.
- Major Robert Dapes: From what?
- Captain Raphael Ramirez: From being shot.”
Sir Sean Connery - Major Robert Dapes
Héctor Elizondo - Captain Raphael Ramirez

“- Coach Ed Gennero: Dean Elias, for someone who hates football you sure spend alot of time watching the sport.
- Dean Phillip Elias: Eternal vigilance is the price of integrity, Coach Gennaro.”
Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero
Larry Miller - Dean Phillip Elias

“I would kneel if it weren't for my knee replacement.”
Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“- Coach Ed Gennero: What happened, who missed their assignment?
- Coach Rig: Everybody missed their god-damn assignment!”

Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero
Robert Loggia - Coach Wally Rig

“At the end, I had my father in a nursing home. I gave him the best doctors in Illinois. He was a little senile... not much. I never spent much time with him. I was too busy. Finally, when I got around to seeing him, he didn't recognize me. Till the day he died, he didn't know who the hell I was.”
Héctor Elizondo - Charlie Gargas

“I have never put on pantihose before, but it sounds dangerous.”
Héctor Elizondo - Joe

“- Coach Ed Gennero: Is it fatal?
- Doctor: Indigestion? Only in Mexico.”
Héctor Elizondo - Coach Ed Gennero