James Woods movie quotes

“- Susan: This is hard to say, but I've been thinking a lot about it... and we can't have a relationship.
- John Moss: Sure we can, 'cause I can change. I'll try harder.
- Susan: It's not that. It's not you. You're fine. It's what you do. It's... it's all the violence.”

Annabella Sciorra - Susan
James Woods - John Moss

“No one, I am telling you, no one in Beverly Hills is ever going to do business with a black man.”

James Woods - Jake Wise

“- Mr. Leonard Donofrio: I'm telling you nicely, you're too young.
- Young Beverly: Pop, you can't negotiate my boobs. Whether I'm too young to have them or not, I got them. I'm a woman. It's just hard to see it through all these clothes.”

James Woods - Mr. Leonard Donofrio
Mika Boorem - Young Beverly

“You let them close down the universities, you let them wipe out the best minds in the countries, you let them kill whoever they want, you let them wipe out the Catholic Church, you let them do it all because they aren't Commies! And that, Colonel, is bullshit!”

James Woods - Richard Boyle

“- Titans: Crush Zeus! Freeze Zeus! Melt Zeus! And blow him away! Zeus! Zeus! Zeus! Zeus!
- Hades: Uh, guys? Olympus would be that way.”

Corey Burton - Titans
James Woods - Hades

“- Robert Reynard: Why did I think I could reason with a man who defends coke pushers for free?
- Eddie Dodd: No, no: Coke dealers pay cash! That subsidizes the pot possession cases; they're free!”
Kurtwood Smith - Robert Reynard
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

Issues are shit we use as an excuse to run good stories. "Judge Grabs Female Attorney's Tits". The sex discrimination "issue". "Nine-year-old Shoots Brother With Uzi". The child violence "issue". People want to read about sex organs and blood.
James Woods - Alan Mann

“- Brenner: What's worse than rape?
- Colonel Robert Moore: When you find that out... then you'll know everything, won't you?”

John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Woods - Colonel Moore

“Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?”
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“- Ella Tate: I've been to jail, like I said.
- Weston Tate: On visit?
- Ella Tate: Yeah, I was visiting our daughter.
- Weston Tate: What?
- Ella Tate: Possession of firearms, malicious vandalism, breaking and entering, assault, violation of equestrian regulations...”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
James Woods - Weston Tate

- Hades: So you took care of him? "Dead as a doornail", weren't those your exact words?
- Pain: This might be a different Hercules.
- Panic: Yeah! I mean, Hercules is a very popular name nowadays!
- Pain: Remember, like, a few years ago, every other boy was named Jason, and the girls were all named Brittany?

James Woods - Hades
Bobcat Goldthwait - Pain
Matt Frewer - Panic

“- Roger Baron: You were my age when you defended that case.
- Eddie Dodd: I was never your age.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Roger Baron
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“I got you a $40,000 car and a $2 mutt. Go figure.”

James Woods - Lenny Brown

“It's in the area of narcotics, Mr. Reynard, that the government tramples on the Fourth Amendment.”
James Woods - Eddie Dodd

“- Harlan: I don't work with you for the money.
- Max Renn: I know that. 'Cause piracy's never just for the money, is it?”
Peter Dvorsky - Harlan
James Woods - Max Renn

“- Max Renn: That dress. It's very stimulating. And it's red. You know what Freud would've said about that dress.
- Nicki Brand: And he would've been right. I admit it. I live in a highly excited state of overstimulation.
- Max Renn: Listen, I'd really like to take you out to dinner tonight.”
James Woods - Max Renn
Debbie Harry - Nicki Brand

“Anybody can kill anybody, even the President, remember?”
James Woods - Cleve

“- John Cassady: I thought you were dead.
- Richard Boyle: Dead? Why, do I look that bad?
- John Cassady: Yes.”
John Savage - John Cassady
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“Ladies and gents, I drink to the demise of Fat Moe's speakeasy.”
James Woods - Max

“- Michael Kitz: Your having sent this announcement all over the world may well constitute a breach of national security.
- Ellie Arroway: This isn't a person-to-person call. You can't possibly think that a civilization sending this kind of message would intend it just for Americans.”

James Woods - Michael Kitz
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“I want you to stay away from it! Those mondo weirdo video guys, they've got unsavory connections, they play rough. Rougher than even Nicki Brand wants to play... You know, in Brazil, Central America, those kinds of places, making underground videos is considered a subversive act. They execute people for it. In Pittsburgh, who knows?”
James Woods - Max Renn

“- Hades: Meg, listen. Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of your freedom, fluttering away, for ever!
- Meg: I don't care, I'm not going to help you hurt him!
- Hades: I can't believe you're getting all worked up over some guy.
- Meg: This one is different. He's strong, he's caring, he would never do anything to hurt me...”

James Woods - Hades
Susan Egan - Meg

“- Max: You'll be carrying the stink of the streets with you for the rest of your life!
- Noodles: I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. And I like the smell of it, it opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.”
James Woods - Max
Robert De Niro - Noodles

“- Jack Morgan - State Department Analyst: Hey, Boyle. I thought you were dead!
- Richard Boyle: Well, it takes more than wishing.”
Colby Chester - Jack Morgan
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“Innocence kills, Jen! Believe me, it kills! I see it every fucking day of my life!”
James Woods - Lloyd Hopkins