Will Patton movie quotes

“Great men were made by other great men. Patton had Rommel, Grant had Lee, I get stuck with you.”

Will Patton - General Bethlehem

“I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life.”
Will Patton

“In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.”
Will Patton

“- Coach Bill Yoast: I think this is a very good time for prayer and reflection.
- Gerry Bertier: Coach, I'm hurt. I'm not dead.”
Will Patton - Coach Bill Yoast
Ryan Hurst - Gerry Bertier

“- Nahum Goddard: Where do you come from, Percy?
- Percy Talbott: Ohio.
- Nahum Goddard: Ohio, huh. I had some clients from Ohio once. Didn't sound like you do.
- Percy Talbott: Well I wouldn't mind coming from someplace else, if that doesn't suit you.”
Will Patton - Nahum Goddard
Alison Elliott - Percy Talbott

“- Coach Herman Boone: Well I'm very happy to have the approval of a 5-years-old.
- Sheryl Yoast: I'm 9 and a half, thank you very much.
- Coach Herman Boone: Why don't you get this little girl, some pretty dolls or something, coach?
- Coach Bill Yoast: I've tried. She loves football.”
Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
Hayden Panettiere - Sheryl Yoast
Will Patton - Coach Bill Yoast

“You're a small piece of shit... and I don't want the karma of your death on my soul.”

Will Patton - Quentin Glass

“- Laurie Strode: Do you know that I prayed every night that he would escape?
- Officer Hawkins: What the hell did you do that for?
- Laurie Strode: So I can kill him.”

Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode
Will Patton - Officer Hawkins

“- Sharon: Have you been saved?
- Deputy Foster: No.
- Sharon: Do you know what that means?
- Deputy Foster: Yeah.
- Sharon: Would you like to be?
- Deputy Foster: Yeah, sure, who wouldn't?”
Mimi Rogers - Sharon
Will Patton - Deputy Foster

“I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.”
Will Patton

“I know what your problem is. Do you know why you won't fight? Because you have nothing to fight for! You don't care about anything! You don't value anything! You don't believe in anything! That's what makes me better!”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem

“- Scott Pritchard: You South African?
- Nina Beka: That's right?
- Scott Pritchard: I don't see a U.S. visa. You're an illegal alien. Do you know who I am? I can pick up that phone and I can have you on the first plane to Johannesburg. I'm assuming you have a reason for not wanting to be there.”

Will Patton - Scott Pritchard
Iman - Nina Beka

“- Quentin Glass: You're not doing drugs, are you?
- Spacker Dave: Not right now.”
Will Patton - Quentin Glass
Ben Foster - Spacker Dave

“I know all there is to know about screwing your way into a wealthy family and there's no way I'm gonna let you screw your way into mine.”

Will Patton - Lloyd Abbott

- Tumbler: Yo, so check out my new move. I call it "the Stranger". What I do is, I sit on my hand for, like, 15, 20 minutes, until it goes numb. No feeling at all. And then I rub one out.
- Toby: "The Stranger", huh?
- Atley Jackson: It's like a little boy's nursery school I've come upon here.
Scott Caan - Tumbler
William Lee Scott - Toby
Will Patton - Atley Jackson

“Harry, the clock on that nine-foot nuclear weapon is ticking.”
Will Patton - Chick

“- Reuben Goetz: Nico! Uh, W-we got prawn tempura, seaweed salad... you want to join us?
- Nicoletti: You kiss your mother after you eat that stuff?
- Reuben Goetz: No. I can kiss you if you like.
- Nicoletti: Go fuck yourself, Reuben.”
Dermot Mulroney - Reuben Goetz
Will Patton - Nicoletti

“I have plans for my daughters, Mr. Holt; they don't include you. I know you: I know you better than you know me.”

Will Patton - Lloyd Abbott

“- General Bethlehem: You see the reason you don't want to die for anything is because you have nothing to die for. That's the difference between you and me. You don't believe in anything.
- The Postman: I believe in the United States.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem
Kevin Costner - The Postman

“Law one: you will obey orders without question. Law two: punishment shall be swift. Law three: mercy is for the weak. Four: terror will defeat reason. Five: your allegiance is to the clan. Six: justice can be dictated. Seven: any clansman may challenge for leadership of the clan. Law eight: there is only one penalty. Death.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem

“- Chick: I never told anybody this before, but I hate flyin'. So it would be an awful shame to die now.
- Rockhound: That's easy for you to say. I owe 100 grand to a fat-ass loan shark which I spent on a stripper named Molly Mounds.
- Chick: Boy, that's bad.”
Steve Buscemi - Rockhound
Will Patton - Chick

“A military man, especially a commander, should keep a journal. After he's gone, it's the only real defense against the slander that later arises.”
Will Patton - General Bethlehem

“- Horst: That was rude of you, before, Paul. You really ought to be ashamed of yourself.
- Paul Hackett: I don't know what could have come over me.
- Horst: Lack of discipline.
- Paul Hackett: Possibly.”
Will Patton - Horst
Griffin Dunne - Paul Hackett