Robert Duvall movie quotes

“Your grandmother's boyfriend is a first-class ass sniffer!”
Robert Duvall - Howard

“- Boss Spearman: I believe you have a friend of ours in your jail. His name's Mose Harrison.
- Sheriff Poole: I got him here. He started a fight in the general store.
- Boss Spearman: Mose don't start fights. He just finishes them.”
Robert Duvall - Boss Spearman
James Russo - Sheriff Poole

“- Mattie Ross: Do you need a good lawyer?
- Ned Pepper: I need a good judge!”
Kim Darby - Mattie Ross
Robert Duvall - Ned Pepper

“- Walter: You have to pee too?
- Frank: I'm 75 years old. I always have to pee.”
Robert Duvall - Walter
Richard Harris - Frank

“- John J.: Just because you're a fuckin' cop, where do you get the right to tell me I got wrinkles on my face?
- Cop at Newsstand: All I said was you look a little tired, John... a little worn out. I didn't say anything about wrinkles.”
Robert Duvall - John J.
Michael Corrente - Cop at Newsstand

“- Mary Anne Meechum: Let's have a conversation Dad. Let's bare our souls and get to know one another.
- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: I don't want you to get to know me. I like being an enigma, like a Chink. Now scram.”
Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum

A plaintiff's case depends on momentum the few objections he gets the better the case will go so whenever you can you should object, irrelevance: objection hearsay: objection best evidence: objection authenticity: objection if you should fall asleep at the counsel chair the first thing you say when you wake up should be "objection".
Robert Duvall - Jerome Facher

“- Joseph Pulitzer: Know what I was doing at your age, boy? I was in a war. The Civil War.
- Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of it. So, did you win?
- Joseph Pulitzer: People think war is about right or wrong and not power.
- Jack Kelly: Yeah, I heard of that too. I don't just sell your papes, Joe. Sometime I read 'em.”
Robert Duvall - Joseph Pulitzer
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly

“Boys, I don't want to speak ill of your mother on Christmas, but she's nothing but a common street whore.”
Robert Duvall - Howard

“- Mary Anne Meechum: Dad, why do you love me more than your other children?
- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: Beat it, I'm reading the sports page.”
Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum

“A fighting man must be vigilant to surprise attack no matter where he is. The survival of our nation depends on the readiness of Marines all over the world. Also more importantly, you only wiped yourself twice - grossly insufficient.”
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum

“Put your damn tit back in your dress. Replace that tit!”

Robert Duvall - Daddy

“- Max Mercy: You read my mind.
- Roy Hobbs: That takes all of three seconds.”
Robert Duvall - Max Mercy
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“- Sue Barlow: So is it marriage that scares you two, or puttin' down roots?
- Boss Spearman: No. Who'd have him? All rangy and mangy like a rough old dog.”
Annette Bening - Sue Barlow
Robert Duvall - Boss Spearman

“The idea of criminal court is crime and punishment. The idea of civil court and of personal injury law by nature, although no one likes to say it out loud, least of all the personal injury lawyer himself is money. Money for suffering and money for death as if that could somehow relieve suffering, as if somehow it can bring dead children back to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Duvall - Jerome Facher

“- Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum: I didn't know you looked so stacked, sports fans.
- Mary Anne Meechum: How sicko sexual can you get?”
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum
Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum

“- Frank: Take out your pecker and feed the Fish.
- Walter: What?
- Frank: Pee in the ocean.”
Richard Harris - Frank
Robert Duvall - Walter

“- John J.: So what is tango? It is something new to me. Tango is new in America. I love it.
- Tia Maria: Tango is life.”
Robert Duvall - John J.
María Nieves - Tia Maria

“Well, I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy.”
Robert Duvall - Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

“In the future if there is a future, it would behoove you to keep your opinions to yourself about my face or anything else about me - all right?”

Robert Duvall - John J.

“- Bernie White: Do you hate me? If you hate me, there's no point.
- Deanne White: I don't know you enough to hate you.”

Robert Duvall - Bernie White
Jill Hennessy - Deanne White

“I'd like to propose a toast, to my son. He is eighteen today. He has just ordered his first drink. Before he drinks it, I'd like to wish him a long life, a wife as fine as his mother, and a son as fine as he's been. To my son!”
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum

“- Frank: She's got a great backyard.
- Walter: I don't know. I've never been to her house.
- Frank: She's got a great ass.”

Richard Harris - Frank
Robert Duvall - Walter

“- Whore: Hi, Tom. You wanna play carnival?
- Det. Tom Spellacy: I don't know that one.
- Whore: I sit on your face,and you try to guess my weight!”
Louisa Moritz - Whore
Robert Duvall - Det. Tom Spellacy

“- Joseph Pulitzer: Anyone who doesn't act in their own self interest is a fool.
- David Jacobs: Then what does that make you?
- Joseph Pulitzer: What?
- Jack Kelly: Oh, this is my pal, Davey. The Walkin' Mouth.
- David Jacobs: You talk about self-interest, but since the strike, your circulation's been down 70%.”
Robert Duvall - Joseph Pulitzer
David Moscow - David Jacobs
Christian Bale - Jack Kelly