Violence quotes

“Creepy? We're the CIA, creepy is what we do.”

Keith David - CIA Director

Pootie Tang will draw you a picture of how he gonna kick your ass, then mail it to you ten days in advance. The picture gets there right? You're goin', "What the hell is this?" and then Pootie Tang knocks on your door, promptly kicks your ass and you still won't know what happened to you!
Chris Rock - JB

Every time that I bring up comparisons with other free-world countries, what I hear is: "Our culture is so different. We're so different". They have violent video games, they have violent movies, they have alienated youth. They, like us, don't have prayer in schools. What is so radically different? What is it about us?
Tom Mauser - Father of Victim

“What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.”

Jeff Goldblum - Malcolm

“Dear Susan: poor Jimmy was caught and beaten so badly he got a severe hernia, and lost a testicle. He's been in the sanitarium for months. In comparison, my problems seem very small.”
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes

“- Henry Brubaker: What happened? What happened to your eye?
- Abraham Cook: Oh, got hit.
- Henry Brubaker: With what?
- Abraham Cook: With a baseball bat, a trace chain, and a rope with knots in it.”
Robert Redford - Henry Brubaker
Richard Ward - Abraham Cook

“The knifings, the beatings, old ladies being bashed in the head for their Social Security checks, teachers being thrown out of a fourth-floor window because they don't give As, that doesn't bother me a bit.”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan

“When these little African countries get into a dispute, they tend to just murder everybody. They live for the opportunity to settle scores... and they have a lot of scores to settle.”
Ernie Hudson - Captain Monroe Kelly

“That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.”

Gary Farmer - Nobody

“- Stephen Simmons: Lidia hit him in the face with a rock? I think I'm gonna have to have a talk with that girl. Is she doing anything else I should know about?
- Stu Simmons: Well yeah. She's doing a lot of things. But I don't think you should know about them.”
Kevin Costner - Stephen Simmons
Elijah Wood - Stu Simmons

“I sometimes do special things to my victims: things that are creative. Of course, it takes knowledge, pride in your work... For example, a decapitated head can continue to see for approximately twenty seconds. So when I have one that's gawking, I always hold it up so that it can see its body. It's a little extra I throw in for no added charge. I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Dourif - The Gemini Killer

“- 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

“I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman, blood is a big expense.”
Al Lettieri - Sollozzo

“Juliet! Those dirty bastards! Beating up a woman. They even knocked your breasts out of whack.”
Steve Martin - Rigby Reardon

“Suddenly, everybody needed it most of the time. A thing they had never needed before became a necessity. And unfamiliar emotions began to stir: a feeling of wanting to own, of not wanting to share. Other new things came: anger, jealousy, hate and violence.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“- Paul Kersey: Do you always violate peoples constitutional rights?
- Richard Shriker: Well, this is my jail, Kersey, and I'm the law! That means I get to violate your constitutional rights!”
Charles Bronson - Paul Kersey
Ed Lauter - Richard Shriker

“- Shep Ramsey: You're gonna pound my face. Break every bone in my body. Then you're gonna drag me across a gravel road and feed my remains to a warthog. Is that about right?
- Deak: What are you nuts? This is the '90s. We're gonna sue you.”
Hulk Hogan - Shep Ramsey
Dennis Burkley - Deak

“I love Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.”
Oprah Winfrey - Sofia

“Gilman, may I remind you that I have friends who have absolutely no regard for the sanctity of human life? I pick up the phone, I have your head in a bag on my desk tomorrow morning.”
Denis Leary - Lt. David Poole

“For an Immortal who comes to abhor the bloodshed, there's a similar solution, a way to be removed from the game forever. Though the price is unimaginably high. But you are, for all practical purposes, protected from the violence within you.”
Peter Wingfield - Methos

“Santa Maya must be liberated by any means necessary. Even diplomacy if it should come to it.”
Peter Cook - Sir Mortimer Chris

“- Brackett: A man wouldn't do that.
- Loomis: This isn't a man.”

Charles Cyphers - Brackett
Donald Pleasence - Loomis

“- Pantucci: I think she broke my nose!
- Trillian St. James: Give me a chance and I'll break the rest of your face. Not that anyone would notice.”

Kevin J. O'Connor - Joey Pantucci
Famke Janssen - Trillian St. James

“I'll tell you what I think of it: I live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!”

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Ben Richards

“If you weren't wearin' those stripes, I'd kick your fuckin' ass around the fuckin' block... yeah... but since I'm not into violence, I'll refrain from kickin' your ass at this time.”
Mario Van Peebles - Stitch