James Woods movie quotes

- Linda Brown: Maybe we're going too fast. We should just take this a step at a time.
- Lenny Brown: To hell with that. You don't stepthrough life. "Teacher, may I?" It goes too quick for that. You gotta leap through life!
Sean Young - Linda Brown
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“The last struggle for Constitutional rights is being waged over drugs.”
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“- Max Renn: What's that? You let someone cut you?
- Nicki Brand: Yeah, what do you think?
- Max Renn: Well, I don't know.
- Nicki Brand: Would you like to try a few things?”
James Woods - Max Renn
Debbie Harry - Nicki Brand

“The only way a curse sticks is if you let it.”
James Woods - Weston Tate

“- Jake Wise: Look, I was a bit of an asshole. You know, I got crazy and I popped her a few times, she came after me with a knife. Just missed my balls.
- Terry Brogan: And was she going for them?
- Jake Wise: Don't they all?”
James Woods - Jake Wise
Jeff Bridges - Terry Brogan

“- Brenner: You think silence will save your ass.
- Colonel Robert Moore: My ass, as you so delicately put it, is already in a sling, is it not?
- Brenner: You mean the sex tapes.
- Colonel Robert Moore: You're good. Mmm. You're good. Great question. Almost any answer incriminates me, doesn't it?
- Brenner: That's why I like it.”
John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Woods - Colonel Moore

“- Jack Crow: Why don't you just kill me and get it over with?
- Cardinal Alba: Because you are needed, Jack. The ceremony is a re-enactment of the original exorcism. It requires the blood of a crusader and his crucifixion upon a burning cross. The climax of the ceremony must coincide with the first rays of the rising sun. Sorry, Jack.”
James Woods - Jack Crow
Maximilian Schell - Cardinal Alba

“- Gabriel Caine: Do you know the difference between a hustler and a good con-man?
- Fitz: No.
- Gabriel Caine: A hustler has to get out of town as quick as he can, but a good con-man doesn't have to leave until he wants to.”
James Woods - Gabriel Caine
Oliver Platt - Fitz

“- Margalo: Don't hurt him, Falcon!
- Falcon: I won't hurt him. The sidewalk will!”

Melanie Griffith - Margalo
James Woods - Falcon

“- Michael Kitz: You admit that you very well may have hallucinated this whole thing.
- Ellie Arroway: Yes.
- Michael Kitz: You admit that if you were in our position, you would respond with exactly the same degree of incredulity and skepticism!
- Ellie Arroway: Yes!
- Michael Kitz: Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony, and concede...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Woods - Michael Kitz
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Max Sherman: I live where the money is. You don't think this NYC crowd would have anything to do with me unless I could move millions of bucks around, do you...? Does your wife work?
- Lenny Brown: Yeah, she has a great job.
- Max Sherman: Lucky for you.”
Steven Hill - Max Sherman
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Father McFeely: How is she?
- Mother: It's gotten worse Father. She won't eat. She won't talk. The child won't let me touch her.
- Father McFeely: Yes, sometimes you have to give them candy.”
James Woods - Father McFeely
Veronica Cartwright - Mother

“Don't think too badly about your wife, Doc. After all, you were locked up in prison. She is a stunningly, healthy young woman.”
James Woods - Jack Benyon

“- Zeus: Aw, Hades, don't be such a stiff. Join the celebration.
- Hades: Love to, babe. But unlike you gods lounging about up here, I regretfully have a full-time job that you, by the way, so charitably bestowed on me, Zeus. So, can't. Love to, but can't.”

Rip Torn - Zeus
James Woods - Hades

“Let me just ask you one thing - after 600 years, how's that dick workin', pretty good?”

James Woods - Jack Crow

“- Max Renn: Have you been hallucinating lately?
- Harlan: No. Should I be?
- Max Renn: Yes, you should be.”
James Woods - Max Renn
Peter Dvorsky - Harlan

“- Patsy: Hey, Noodles, get a load of this... Hey, scotch heating!
- Cockeye: Yeah, a buck a cup.
- Noodles: A buck a cup?
- Max: Yeah!
- Noodles: How much's it cost us?
- Max: Costing us? A dime, including overhead!”
James Hayden - Patsy
William Forsythe - Cockeye
Robert De Niro - Noodles
James Woods - Max

“I wonder what they're all doing tonight. The poor people of the world, I mean.”
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Hercules: People are gonna get hurt, aren't they?
- Hades: Nah. I mean, you know, it's a possibility. It happens 'cause... it's war, but what can I tell you. Anyway, what do you owe these people, huh?”
Tate Donovan - Hercules
James Woods - Hades

“We live this job. It's something we are, not something we do! Every time a cop walks up to a car and has to give a speeding ticket, he know he may have to kill someone or be killed himself.”
James Woods - John Moss

“- Richard Boyle: How am I a bad Catholic?
- María: You are living in sin. You drink!
- Richard Boyle: Okay, yeah, once in a while...
- María: You sleep with many women... Do you smoke marijuana?
- Richard Boyle: No, that was Rock! He's a troublemaker!”
Elpidia Carrillo - María
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“- Ned: I worry about money, just like everybody else.
- Lenny Brown: But you got some backstops. You start falling down that well, you got some slats across to catch yourself, right? You got your professor-father. You got an education. You got the Financial Journal. You can't fall too far. My old man's an ex-printer on disability! My mother is a...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Rothman - Ned
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Paulo: It looks like I finally get to kill you after all.
- Gabriel Caine: Well, that's a distinct possibility. But I'd bet, I don't know, four dollars against an hour with your mother that it doesn't turn out that way.”
Michael DeLorenzo - Paulo
James Woods - Gabriel Caine

- Dr. Philliam "Phil" Benedict: Oh, come now, Pete. There's no need to be rude. Not after I've instructed my men to provide you with special care.
- Principal Peter Prickly: Special care? That's what you call gagging me, tying me up, and taking away my pants?
James Woods - Dr. Philliam "Phil" Benedict
Dabney Coleman - Principal Peter Prickly

“- Priest: Ask the Lord for forgiveness from your heart.
- Richard Boyle: From my heart... If I'd known this, I would've come earlier, before years.”
James Woods - Richard Boyle