James Caan movie quotes

“Your criteria are so far up your ass, they can't see daylight! This is bullshit!”

James Caan - Frank

“I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.”
James Caan

“- Regent Chairman: This is not a football vocational school. It's an institute for higher learning.
- Sam Winters: Yeah, but when was the last time 80,000 people showed up to watch a kid do a damn chemistry experiment?”
Dan Hannafin - Regent Chairman
James Caan - Sam Winters

“- Mrs. Knowles: The point is, we establish criteria for parenting, and an ex-convict compared to other desirables...
- Frank: Great, so we'll take a kid that's not so desirable. You got a black kid? We'll take a black kid. You got a chink kid?
- Mrs. Knowles: You don't seem to understand...
- Frank: Nobody likes older kids. You got an eight-year...” (continue)(continue reading)

Marge Kotlisky - Mrs. Knowles
James Caan - Frank

“- Jessie: You sell little fucking cars, that's what you do.
- Frank: I wear $150 slacks, I wear silk shirts, I wear $800 suits, I wear a gold watch, I wear a perfect, D-flawless three carat ring. I change cars like other guys change their fucking shoes. I'm a thief. I've been in prison, all right?”
Tuesday Weld - Jessie
James Caan - Frank

“I don't think. Neither do I speculate, assume or hypothesise.”
James Caan - Joe Sarno

“Fifteen million dollars is not money. It's a motive with a universal adaptor on it.”
James Caan - Joe Sarno

“- Dixie Leonard: You got three daughters. Why don't you give them the benefit of your wisdom?
- Eddie Sparks: Because my wisdom is for a son.”
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard
James Caan - Eddie Sparks

“I promise you a day of reckoning that you won't live long enough to never forget.”
James Caan - Joe Sarno

“You know, some people take things for granted, like the ability to chew solid food.”
James Caan - U.S. Marshal Robert DeGuerin

“- Longbaugh: Who are you?
- Sarno: I'm the guy you might meet one night. When you wake up with a pillow over your head. And the only thing you'll hear is a little pop.”
Benicio del Toro - Harold Longbaugh
James Caan - Joe Sarno

“That is pitiful! That is goddamn pitiful! How long you been shootin'? What are you going to do if you catch a perp running out of a liquor store, wave your written exam scores at him?”

James Caan - Matthew Sykes

- Dixie Leonard: You're gonna kill him if you fill his head full of this crap!
- Eddie Sparks: Such as what?
- Dixie Leonard: Such as "Don't study", "Everything comes easy", "Life's a big party".
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard
James Caan - Eddie Sparks

“- Tim Lockwood: Not every sardine was meant to swim, son.
- Young Flint: I don't understand fishing metaphors!”
James Caan - Tim Lockwood
Max Neuwirth - Young Flint

“To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.”
James Caan

“I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.”
James Caan

“- Mr. Henry: I don't mean to offend you, Bob. But your brother's a cocksucker. Does that offend you?
- Bob Mapplethorpe: No, that didn't offend me.
- Mr. Henry: Good.”
James Caan - Mr. Henry
Robert Musgrave - Bob Mapplethorpe

“Darling, only you can see me. They can't see me.”

James Caan - Jolly

“The world needs dreamers.”

James Caan - Mr. Henry

“- Robert: Hey, John? That was good work last night.
- U.S. Marshal John 'The Eraser' Kruger: I had a good teacher.
- Robert: Bullshit. You had the best.”
James Caan - U.S. Marshal Robert DeGuerin
Arnold Schwarzenegger - U.S. Marshal John 'The Eraser' Kruger

- Eddie Sparks: What'd you tell him?
- Dixie Leonard: I said to him "Darling, sex between two people can be a beautiful thing".
- Eddie Sparks: Oh, yeah.
- Dixie Leonard: "But between four people... fantastic!".

James Caan - Eddie Sparks
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard

“- Sonny Corleone: What the hell is this?
- Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”

James Caan - Sonny Corleone
Richard S. Castellano - Clemenza

“- Eddie Sparks: Look at this. I'm 91-years-old. 50 years I've been waiting for this chance. Dixie, please let's go upstairs.
- Dixie Leonard: What, to your room?
- Eddie Sparks: Yeah.
- Dixie Leonard: And then we get undressed?
- Eddie Sparks: Yeah.
- Dixie Leonard: And then we get into bed?
- Eddie Sparks: Yeah.
- Dixie Leonard: And then what?”
James Caan - Eddie Sparks
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard

“- Dixie Leonard: Mind if I smoke?
- Eddie Sparks: I don't care if you burn.
- Dixie Leonard: What a prince.”
Bette Midler - Dixie Leonard
James Caan - Eddie Sparks

“- Sam Francisco: This is my son, Richard. He's four years old. We named him after your former president, Richard Nixon.
- Matthew Sykes: George, from now on, tell people that you named him after the director Richard Burton. Just trust me on this.”

Mandy Patinkin - Sam Francisco
James Caan - Matthew Sykes