Violence quotes

“- 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

“- Jack Thornton: I'm sorry I was so rough.
- Claire Blake: Well, I... I'm sorry I was so unpleasant.”
Clark Gable - Jack Thornton
Loretta Young - Claire Blake

“You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise God!”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“Under extreme duress, people are capable of extraordinary behavior. That's what happened when your brother violently attacked the killer. At that moment, it was perfectly normal for him to act to protect himself.”

Paul Lukather - Doctor

“The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one, no matter where he lives or what he does, can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed.”
Dave Fraunces - Robert F. Kennedy

“High School is no place for kids anymore.”
Victor Garber - Det. Martin Van Zandt

“You pulled a whip on me? Are you out of your fucking mind? Let me tell you something - don't you ever pull a whip on a black man again!”

Kadeem Hardison - Malik Brody

“- Candy Store Girl: Hey, what about the money you owe?
- Luther: [shouts] For what?”

Ginny Ortiz - Candy Store Girl
David Patrick Kelly - Luther

“It's how we keep from destroying in turn our own children and terrorizing the women who have the misfortune to love us; how we absent ourselves from the tradition of male violence; how we decline the seduction of revenge.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse

“You come anywhere near these girls again, I won't say nothin'. I'm just gonna come over to your house late at night when you're asleep and kill you with a chainsaw.”

Steve Zahn - Wayne

“- Buscemi: Just try and keep it from turning into a fucking bloodbath, all right? Not like last time.
- El Mariachi: That one wasn't my fault.
- Buscemi: Well, of course not.
- El Mariachi: No, they started it.”
Steve Buscemi - Buscemi
Antonio Banderas - El Mariachi

“I admire you as a policeman - particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job.”
James Cromwell - Dudley Smith

“When my old man had something important to tell me, he told me with his belt.”
Walter Matthau - Mr. George Wilson

“- Rosaleen: I'd never let a man strike me.
- Granny: Oh, they're nice as pie until they've had their way with you. But once the bloom is gone... oh, the beast comes out.”
Sarah Patterson - Rosaleen
Dame Angela Lansbury - Granny

“No man on Earth should be so violently in love. It puts him at such a disadvantage.”
Bill Nighy - James Mortmain

“With all this permissive sex, and recreational violence, it's no wonder this country is in the mess it's in. I mean, it's like the old saying: when you lay down with dogs, you get up with puppies!”
Bob Trimboli - Lt. Jack B. Nimble

“Out here it's kill your parents, fuck your friends, and have a nice day.”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“- Counterman: Who needs the goddamn movies anyway? I got a show in here every single night.
- Mason Storm: Yeah?
- Counterman: You've got horror, sex, freaks, violence. I don't got to pay no four bucks either.”
Stanley Brock - Counterman
Steven Seagal - Mason Storm

“- Lt. Col. H.C. Denny: Do you really believe that Lord Kitchener, a man venerated throughout the world, would be capable of issuing an order of such barbarity?
- Major J.F. Thomas: I do know that orders that one would consider barbarous have already been issued in this war. Before I was asked to defend these soldiers, I spent some months...” (continue)(continue reading)

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell - Lt. Col. H.C. Denny
Jack Thompson - Major J.F. Thomas

“- Dellwo: What happened here today happens all the time, sir.
- Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin: So let me get this straight. You mean there's violence, in a prison packed with violent criminals?”
Paul Calderon - Dellwo
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“- Matt Murdock: Justice isn't a sin, Father.
- Father Everett: No, but vengeance is. You see it every day on the street: violence begets more violence. Is that how you want to live your life? A lawyer during the day, and then judge and jury at night?”
Ben Affleck - Matt Murdock
Derrick O'Connor - Father Everett

“See? That's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser. Out here I can pick you up, burn your house, fuck your wife, and kill your dog.”

Nick Nolte - Hoover

“- Jody Salerno: Are you angry with me? You are, I can tell.
- Beth Easton: I'm angry this happen to you.”

Anna Chlumsky - Jody Salerno
Christina Ricci - Beth Easton

“- Nanny: That's barbaric!
- Killjoy: Oh, yeah!”

Natalie Core - Nanny
John Matuszak - Killjoy

“You strike me as the kind of guy who's on the lookout for a head he can knock off with a shovel.”
John Turturro - John Shooter