Robert Redford movie quotes

“- Henry Brubaker: Mess with me now; you're gonna regret it later.
- Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: We don't work this thing out fast, mister, you're not gonna be around later.”
Robert Redford - Henry Brubaker
Yaphet Kotto - Richard 'Dickie' Coombes

“- Tom Bishop: I thought spies drank martinis.
- Nathan Muir: Scotch, never less than twelve years old.
- Tom Bishop: Is that right? Agency rules?
- Nathan Muir: My rules.”
Brad Pitt - Tom Bishop
Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“I'll mate for life. One day at a time.”
Robert Redford - Denys

“- Henry Brubaker: What are you in for?
- Abraham Cook: Manslaughter. Killed my baby brother with a rock.
- Henry Brubaker: How long were you sentenced?
- Abraham Cook: 35 years.”
Robert Redford - Henry Brubaker
Richard Ward - Abraham Cook

“- David Murphy: I guess there's limits to what money can buy.
- John Gage: Not many.
- Diana Murphy: Well, some things aren't for sale.
- John Gage: Such as?
- Diana Murphy: You can't buy people.”
Woody Harrelson - David Murphy
Robert Redford - John Gage
Demi Moore - Diana Murphy

“- Henry Brubaker: You're not eating?
- Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: I don't eat that shit you're eating.
- Henry Brubaker: Do you know anything about nutrition?
- Richard 'Dickie' Coombes: I know about hungry.”
Robert Redford - Henry Brubaker
Yaphet Kotto - Richard 'Dickie' Coombes

“I'm still here, Todd, because I'm a selfish man. I'm selfish for the rare times when you know you have someone in your class that has rare gifts to go on and do big things on a big scale.”

Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley

“- Hallie: They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
- Sonny: I know. I'm the one who said it.”
Jane Seymour Fonda - Hallie
Robert Redford - Sonny

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

“- Pop Fisher: You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.
- Roy Hobbs: My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.
- Pop Fisher: Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.”
Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“Troy, do you remember when we could tell the good guys from the bad guys?”

Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“- Bobby Duran: Were you waiting for me?
- Jack Weil: All my life.”

Lena Olin - Bobby Duran
Robert Redford - Jack Weil

“The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... and in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... but you're never gonna be the same person you are right now.”
Robert Redford - Professor Stephen Malley

“- Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
- Mr. Bernard Abbott: We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
- Bishop: You're just gonna have to try.
- Mr. Bernard Abbott: All right, I'll see what I can do.
- Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask.”

David Strathairn - Whistler
James Earl Jones - Mr. Bernard Abbott
Robert Redford - Bishop

As time passed, my father struggled for more to hold on to, asking me again and again: had I told him everything. And finally I said to him: "maybe all I know about Paul is that he was a fine fisherman". "You know more than that", my father said, "he was beautiful". And that was the last time we spoke of my brother's death.
Robert Redford - Narrator

“We have developed a legal concept in this country. It's called presumption of innocence.”
Robert Redford - Tom Logan

“- Roy Hobbs: Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I'll give ya the best I got.
- Red Blow: I believe you.”
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs
Richard Farnsworth - Red Blow

“- Katie: You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or to love you as much.
- Hubbell: I know that.
- Katie: Well then why?”
Barbra Streisand - Katie
Robert Redford - Hubbell

“- Butch Cassidy: What do you think? I'll bet it's just one guy.
[The Sundance Kid takes off his hat and holds it outward which is immediately shot out of his hand by at least five gunshots]
- The Sundance Kid: Don't you get sick of being right all the time?”

Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy
Robert Redford - The Sundance Kid

“- Tom Bishop: Happy?
- Nathan Muir: Seventy-four casualties, an apartment block leveled, one dead terrorist? Yeah, happy.
- Tom Bishop: We have some fucked up barometer for success, don't we?”

Brad Pitt - Tom Bishop
Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“- Tally Atwater: Why don't you come with me?
- Warren Justice: I've already been where you're going.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Tally Atwater
Robert Redford - Warren Justice

“- Tom Bishop: Nathan, we killed this man. We used him and we killed him. Okay, then you got to help me understand this one. You got... Nathan, what are we doing here? And don't give me some bullshit about the greater good.
- Nathan Muir: That's exactly what it's about. Because what we do is unfortunately very, very necessary.”

Brad Pitt - Tom Bishop
Robert Redford - Nathan Muir

“- Dick Gordon: National Security Agency.
- Bishop: Ah. You're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
- Dick Gordon: No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance.
- Bishop: Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators.
- Dick Gordon: No, that's the CIA. We protect our government's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Timothy Busfield - Dick Gordon
Robert Redford - Bishop

“- Chelsea Deardon: Do you always cross-examine people?
- Tom Logan: Only when they lie to me.”
Daryl Hannah - Chelsea Deardon
Robert Redford - Tom Logan

“You tell your men you are soldiers and that's your flag. You tell them nobody takes our flag. And you raise that flag so it flies high where everyone can see it. Now you've got yourself a castle. The only difference between this castle and all the rest is that they were built to keep people out. This castle is built to keep people in.”
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin