James Woods movie quotes

“I promote happiness! Can you see the happiness emanating from me?”

James Woods - Reggie Belafonte

“You might wanna try skipping a meal every now and then. Somewhere there's a small country going hungry.”

James Woods - John Moss

“Look, dickwad. I don't give a rat's ass about where you come from. All I care about is where you're going.”
James Woods - John Moss

“- Max Sherman: In all my life, I never treated anyone like I treated you! You were poor; I made you rich. You were drowning; I gave you a yacht! And then you stolefrom me. After I treated you like a son. Twenty thousand dollars!
- Lenny Brown: You want another check? I'll write you another check right now.
- Max Sherman: A check is no damn good....” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Hill - Max Sherman
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Noodles: Hey, Maxie. Max! How much money we got put away?
- Max: Why?
- Noodles: Because we're unemployed.
- Max: About a million bucks.
- Carol: Oh, yeah? Where'd you put it?
- Max: In my underwear.
- Carol: I'd have found it there...”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max
Tuesday Weld - Carol

“- Colonel Robert Moore: Wouldn't it behoove me to retain the services of an attorney? I know a good one.
- Brenner: Two problems there. First the obvious. There are no good ones. Second... you're not a civilian, Colonel, you're in the army. You have no rights to an attorney. You have no right to remain silent. And if you don't cooperate, I may...” (continue)(continue reading)

James Woods - Colonel Moore
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

- Brenner: Did you... play together?
- Colonel Robert Moore: What a truly excellent question. You see, here at Psy Ops, that's one of the things that we teach - Threatening quietly. Think of the echoes inherent in those four simple words. "Did you... Play together?". Did you go out with her? Did you fuck her? Did you love her? If you did... Did... (continue)(continue reading)

John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Woods - Colonel Moore

“- Doctor Rock: They kill people here, Boyle!
- Richard Boyle: Do you believe everything you read in the papers?
- Doctor Rock: Yeah I do!
- Richard Boyle: Come on man, you're gonna love it here.”

Jim Belushi - Dr. Rock
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“He shot him up with amyl-nitrite between rounds! Gillon knew that Charles Macom Diggs would never take a fall! So he put the dope in his nasal spray. How that man went the distance is anybody's guess, but there is one thing for sure, his brain didn't.”

James Woods - Gabriel Caine

“Selling's more important to me than money. Because every time I sell, it means somebody believes in me.”

James Woods - Lenny Brown

“It's not like they're a bunch of fuckin' fags hoppin' around in rented formal wear and seducing everybody in sight with cheesy Euro-trash accents, all right? Forget whatever you've seen in the movies: they don't turn into bats, crosses don't work. Garlic? You wanna try garlic? You could stand there with garlic around your neck and one of these...” (continue)(continue reading)

James Woods - Jack Crow

“- Noodles: What is it?
- Max: It's a throne. It was a gift to a pope. It cost me about 800 bucks.
- Carol: It's from the 17th century.
- Noodles: What are you going to do with it?
- Max: I'm sitting on it.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max
Tuesday Weld - Carol

“You know how easy it is to get a gun in this country? In five minutes, boom, gun show.”
James Woods - Dr. Raymond Turner

“- Roger Baron: I can't believe we're going to see a bunch of Nazis... at night!
- Eddie Dodd: There's no one else to talk to! The tattoos are phony!
- Roger Baron: So?
- Eddie Dodd: So, no upstanding member of the Aryan Army would paint them on. They take those teardrops very seriously. They're badges of honor, of courage! Only their most...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Downey Jr. - Roger Baron
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“If he comes to me for your ass, I'm going to have to give it to him. Then you'll just be a hole, with no ass around it.”
James Woods - Alan Mann

“- Lenny Brown: Mark, I don't sell drugs. I'm in real estate.
- Mark: I don't sell drugs, either. I'm a screenwriter. But until the ship comes in, you gotta cover the waterfront.”

James Woods - Lenny Brown
Marc Poppel - Mark

“- Noodles: It's true I have killed people, Mr. Bailey. Sometimes to defend myself, sometimes for money. And many people used to come to us. Business partners, rivals, lovers. Some of the jobs we took, and some we didn't. Yours is one we would never touch, Mr Bailey.
- Max: Is this your idea of revenge?
- Noodles: No. It's just the way I see things.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max

“Better on TV than on the streets.”

James Woods - Max Renn

“- Gabriel Caine: He's bigger than you are. He's tougher. He's faster. He's younger thant you are. He hasn't fought 22 rounds today, but remember this... you are black!
- Honey Roy Palmer: What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

James Woods - Gabriel Caine
Louis Gossett Jr. - Honey' Roy Palmer

“- Noodles: What's that?
- Max: It's a dream. A dream I've been dreaming all my life. I swear to God, you and me together, we can make it come true!
- Noodles: What is it?
- Max: The Federal Reserve Bank. It's the biggest step we can take, Noodles!”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max

“- Jack Crow: You ever seen a vampire?
- Father Adam Guiteau: No, I haven't.
- Jack Crow: No... Well first of all, they're not romantic.”
James Woods - Jack Crow
Tim Guinee - Father Adam Guiteau

“- María: I always dreamed of going to California.
- Richard Boyle: It's a wacko joint. Not like El Salvador.”
Elpidia Carrillo - María
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“- Shirlee: Its like you're allergic to cornflakes so you start to buy different stuff like a can of peas but when you open up the can of the peas, inside cornflakes, so you pick a TV dinner and open it up and cornflakes.
- Jack: So what does that mean?
- Shirlee: The girls you go out with... outside all different packages but inside... cornflakes.”
Dolly Parton - Shirlee
James Woods - Jack

“You get her out. She goes, you stay.
[after Hercules dives in to save Meg]
Oh, you know what slipped my mind? You'll be dead before you can get to her. That's not a problem, is it?”

James Woods - Hades

“- Lenny Brown: I'm making money so fast over at Max's, they can't keep track of it. Everybody in town thinks I'm a firecracker. And even after all this, my own wife still thinks I'm a bum!
- Linda Brown: I think you're a genius. I just don't want you to feel like you're on a treadmill... having to make more and more money to pay for things we...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Woods - Lenny Brown
Sean Young - Linda Brown