James Woods movie quotes

“- Max Renn: Videodrome. Like video circus, video arena. Do you know it?
- Masha: No.
- Max Renn: It's just torture and murder. No plot, no characters. Very, very realistic. I think it's what's next.
- Masha: Then God help us.”
James Woods - Max Renn
Lynne Gorman - Masha

“- Lloyd Hopkins: Penny's gonna fly. The wings are there, and they're big.
- Dutch Peltz: You better hope the tits are there, and they're big too. She'll get farther in this world with a pair of those.”

James Woods - Lloyd Hopkins
Charles Durning - Dutch Peltz

“I don't have to listen to you! I'm looking at you, I'm looking and I can see a reporter who's about to tell me he has a hunch! Do you want an opinion about reporters who have hunches?”

James Woods - Alan Mann

“Nueva York! New York City! The big apple! Yeah. Rotten to the core as tonight's group will aply demonstrate. They think of themselves as tropical gangsters, but we like to call them: kid Creole and the coconuts!”

James Woods - Jake Wise

“- Eddie Dodd: We gotta find some piece of evidence that's been buried, and open the sucker up again.
- Roger Baron: Christ, Eddie, if the guy's really guilty...
- Eddie Dodd: Hey, only Shu and God know if he's guilty, and neither one of 'em's talkin'.”
James Woods - Eddie Dodd
Robert Downey Jr. - Roger Baron

“When people hear the name Walt Disney they think family friendly, even though Disney gives benefits to faggots.”
James Woods - Hank Joyce

“He's gotta have a weakness, because everybody's got a weakness. I mean, for Pandora, it was the box thing. And for the Trojans, hey, they bet on the wrong horse, okay? All we have to do is find out Wonder Boy's weakness.”

James Woods - Hades

“- Susan: I cannot put Bonnie in a position where she doesn't know if her father's gonna come home alive.
- John Moss: I understand. Sure. Cops are too angry, too violent... too risky to care about... until you need one. Then we're the Second Coming, aren't we? I understand that one all right.”
Annabella Sciorra - Susan
James Woods - John Moss

“- John Moss: She hates me.
- Nick Lang: Buy her a pony.
- John Moss: I mean Susan.
- Nick Lang: Buy her a horse.”
James Woods - John Moss
Michael J. Fox - Nick Lang

“- Eddie Dodd: Everybody else was wrong, the one fucking lunatic was right!
- Roger Baron: Does this mean the phone company killed Kennedy?”
James Woods - Eddie Dodd
Robert Downey Jr. - Roger Baron

“Don't ever make a friend I can eat.”

James Woods - Falcon

“- Hercules: You like making deals. Take me in Meg's place.
- Hades: The son of my hated rival trapped forever in a river of death.”
Tate Donovan - Hercules
James Woods - Hades

“- Carol: Why don't we make it a threesome, huh?
- Max: Can't you see he's got other plans for tonight?
- Carol: Well, bring her along! We'll make it a foursome!”

Tuesday Weld - Carol
James Woods - Max

“There's some good and there's some bad news. The good news is you're right - I'm a cop and I've gotta take you in. The bad news is I've been suspended and I don't give a fuck.”
James Woods - Lloyd Hopkins

“- John Moss: C'mon where are you staying? the Plaza... the Regiun... c'mon where?
- Nick Lang: I'm staying with you.
- John Moss: Maybe when my asshole learns to chew gum.”
James Woods - John Moss
Michael J. Fox - Nick Lang

“- Nick Lang: Will you open up? I just want to know what it feels like to be inside your skin.
- John Moss: I don't want you inside my skin, you understand it? It's private! What's in there belongs to me! You're not gonna learn what it means to be a cop by eating hot dogs and picking your teeth and asking stupid questions.”
Michael J. Fox - Nick Lang
James Woods - John Moss

- Doctor Rock: What does it say?
- Richard Boyle: "Fuck you" in Italian. Shit, she's gone back to Italy to her parents. Goddamnit!
- Doctor Rock: That's too bad, Richard. But at least she left the TV.

Jim Belushi - Dr. Rock
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“- Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: You know I'm often asked by people like yourself to examine my conscience and every now and then I do examine it.
- Richard Boyle: And what do you find there, Jack?
- Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: That whatever mistakes we make down here, the alternative would be ten times worse!”

Colby Chester - Jack Morgan
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“- Max: Sit down, Noodles. Make yourself comfortable. I'm glad you accepted my invitation.
- Noodles: Well, I was curious. So many important people in one place...
- Max: Yes. Well, the rats usually desert a sinking ship. But in my case, they appear to be flocking on board.”
James Woods - Max
Robert De Niro - Noodles

“Now what you boys want to do is you want to graduate from high school, get decent jobs. Take a shot at white-collar crime, that's where the real money is!”

James Woods - John Moss

“- Brenner: Where were you?
- Colonel Robert Moore: Snug in bed.
- Brenner: Witnesses? A wife, girlfriend, roommate, hooker?
- Colonel Robert Moore: I'm divorced. I'm between girlfriends, I live alone and I do not use hookers. I actually have... absolutely no alibi whatsoever. Does that make me a killer?
- Brenner: No. Makes you lonely and...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Woods - Colonel Moore

“- Jack Crow: Padre... I'm beginning to like you... so don't make me hurt you, OK? Just tell me what you know... I'll buy you a beer and get you laid. Come on. If you don't tell me, I'm gonna have to start cutting on ya.
- Father Adam Guiteau: No, you won't. You're a righteous man, Mr. Crow. Besides I serve a higher master than you. Any secrets I...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Woods - Jack Crow
Tim Guinee - Father Adam Guiteau

“A good fight is one you win.”
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“- Max Renn: Why do it for real? It's easier and safer to fake it.
- Masha: Because it has something that you don't have, Max. It has a philosophy. And that is what makes it dangerous.”

James Woods - Max Renn
Lynne Gorman - Masha

“- Captain Brix: You got two ways to deal with this: you got the easy way, you got...
- John Moss: The hard way.
- Captain Brix: Right. John, do us all a favor and make the right choice.
- John Moss: I always do.”
Delroy Lindo - Captain Brix
James Woods - John Moss